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I believe that the great painters with their intellect as master have attempted to force this unwilling medium of paint and canvas into a record of their emotions.
Edward Hopper
Emotions
Force
Intellect
It's 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 that's my method.
Edward Hopper
Funny
Business
Help
Oil
In its most limited sense, modern, art would seem to concern itself only with the technical innovations of the period.
Edward Hopper
Art
Concern
Sense
In general it can be said that a nation's art is greatest when it most reflects the character of its people.
Edward Hopper
Art
People
Character
Nation
If you could say it in words there would be no reason to paint.
Edward Hopper
Reason
Words
If the technical innovations of the Impressionists led merely to a more accurate representation of nature, it was perhaps of not much value in enlarging their powers of expression.
Edward Hopper
Nature
Expression
Value
If the picture needs varnishing later, I allow a restorer to do that, if there's any restoring necessary.
Edward Hopper
Needs
If I had the energy, I would have done it all over the county.
Edward Hopper
Energy
I trust Winsor and Newton and I paint directly upon it.
Edward Hopper
Trust
My aim in painting has always been the most exact transcription possible of my most intimate impression of nature.
Edward Hopper
Nature
Impression
Painting
Great art is the outward expression of an inner life in the artist, and this inner life will result in his personal vision of the world.
Edward Hopper
Art
Life
Vision
Artist
Expression
Result
Will
World
After all, we are not French and never can be, and any attempt to be so is to deny our inheritance and to try to impose upon ourselves a character that can be nothing but a veneer upon the surface.
Edward Hopper
Character
Inheritance
Nothing
I think that zinc white has a property of scaling and cracking.
Edward Hopper
Property
I use a retouching varnish which is made in France, Libert, and that's all the varnish I use.
Edward Hopper
France
Well, I have a very simple method of painting.
Edward Hopper
Painting