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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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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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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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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Nature knows no pause in progress and development, and attaches her curse on all inaction. – Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

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Im very gregarious, but I love being in the hills on my own. – Norman MacCaig

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I am not bound for any public place, but for ground of my own where I have planted vines and orchard trees, and in the heat of the day climbed up into the healing shadow of the woods. – Wendell Berry

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Custom is our nature. What are our natural principles but principles of custom? – Blaise Pascal

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