Quote by Edward Hopper
The trend in some of the contemporary movements in art, but by no

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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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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work
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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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I never called my work an art. Its part of show business, the business of building entertainment. – Walt Disney

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I am an anarchist in politics and an impressionist in art as well as a symbolist in literature. Not that I understand what these terms mean, but I take them to be all merely synonyms of pessimist. – Henry Adams

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Art is an adventure that never seems to end. – Jason, Los Cerros Middle School, 1999

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The moment you think you understand a great work of art, its dead for you. – Oscar Wilde

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