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

Other quotes by Edward Hopper

The question of the value of nationality in art is perhaps unsolvable. – Edward Hopper

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Art
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The trend in some of the contemporary movements in art, but by no means all, seems to deny this ideal and to me appears to lead to a purely decorative conception of painting. – 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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Nature
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To insult someone we call him bestial. For deliberate cruelty and nature, human might be the greater insult. – Isaac Asimov

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Nature and books belong to the eyes that see them. – Ralph Waldo Emerson

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I have never felt salvation in nature. I love cities above all. – Michelangelo

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Fieldes have eies and woods have eares. – John Heywood, 1565

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