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Quote by Edward Hopper
My aim in painting has always been the most exact transcription po

My aim in painting has always been the most exact transcription possible of my most intimate impression of nature. – Edward Hopper

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I find in working always the disturbing intrusion of elements not a part of my most interested vision, and the inevitable obliteration and replacement of this vision by the work itself as it proceeds. – Edward Hopper

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Great art is the outward expression of an inner life in the artist, and this inner life will result in his personal vision of the world. – Edward Hopper

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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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I realise that in this undertaking I place myself in a certain opposition to views widely held concerning the mathematical infinite and to opinions frequently defended on the nature of numbers. – Georg Cantor

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High Romanticism shows you nature in all its harsh and lovely metamorphoses. Flood, fire and quake fling us back to the primal struggle for survival and reveal our gross dependency on mammoth, still mysterious forces. – Camille Paglia

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I am following Nature without being able to grasp her, I perhaps owe having become a painter to flowers. – Claude Monet

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Nature, as we know her, is no saint…. She comes eating and drinking and sinning. – Ralph Waldo Emerson, “Experience”

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