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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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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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The aim of every artist is to arrest motion, which is life, by artificial means and hold it fixed so that a hundred years later, when a stranger looks at it, it moves again since it is life. – William Faulkner

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Great art is the contempt of a great man for small art. – F. Scott Fitzgerald

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Those who educate children well are more to be honored than they who produce them for these only gave them life, those the art of living well. – Aristotle

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Surely all art is the result of ones having been in danger, of having gone through an experience all the way to the end, where no one can go any further. – Rainer Maria Rilke

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