Quote by Edward Hopper
No amount of skillful invention can replace the essential element

No amount of skillful invention can replace the essential element of imagination. – Edward Hopper

Other quotes by Edward Hopper

Painting will have to deal more fully and less obliquely with life and natures phenomena before it can again become great. – Edward Hopper

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If the technical innovations of the Impressionists led merely to a more accurate representation of nature, it was perhaps of not much value in enlarging their powers of expression. – Edward Hopper

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In its most limited sense, modern, art would seem to concern itself only with the technical innovations of the period. – Edward Hopper

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Most people have no imagination. If they could imagine the sufferings of others, they would not make them suffer so. What separated a German mother from a French mother? – Ernst Toller

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Everything that is new or uncommon raises a pleasure in the imagination, because it fills the soul with an agreeable surprise, gratifies its curiosity, and gives it an idea of which it was not before possessed. – Joseph Addison

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Imagination

To think creatively, we must be able to look afresh at what we normally take for granted. – George Kneller

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Imagination

I deeply adored my mum. She was an extraordinary person, even for the prejudice Im likely to have. She was beautiful, amusing, a tremendous elaborator of things into comic proportions and extravagant in her imagination. – Andrew Motion

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Imagination

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