Quote by Edward Hopper
Painting will have to deal more fully and less obliquely with life

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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Its to paint directly on the canvas without any funny business, as it were, and I use almost pure turpentine to start with, adding oil as I go along until the medium becomes pure oil. I use as little oil as I can possibly help, and thats my method. – Edward Hopper

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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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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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Doubtless there are things in nature which have not yet been seen. If an artist discovers them, he opens the way for his successors. – Paul Cezanne

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To me a lush carpet of pine needles or spongy grass is more welcome than the most luxurious Persian rug. – Helen Keller

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It would be against all nature for all the Negroes to be either at the bottom, top, or in between. We will go where the internal drive carries us like everybody else. It is up to the individual. – Zora Neale Hurston

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Painting from nature is not copying the object it is realizing ones sensations. – Paul Cezanne

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