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It is hard for me to know what to paint. It comes slowly.
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The man's the work. Something does not come out of nothing.
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All I ever wanted to do is to paint sunlight on the side of a wall.
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Recognition does not mean so much, you never get it when you need it.
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After I took up etchings [c. 1915], my paintings seemed to crystallize.
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No amount of skillful invention can replace the essential element of imagination.
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Ninety percent of them [artists in general] are forgotten ten minutes after they're dead.
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Maybe I'm not very human. What I wanted to do was to paint sunlight on the side of the house.
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Originality is neither a matter of inventiveness nor method, it is the essence of personality.
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In general it can be said that a nation's art is greatest when it most reflects the character of its people.
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My aim in painting has always been the most exact transcription possible of my most intimate impressions of nature.
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It's probably a reflection of my own, if I may say, loneliness. I don't know. It could be the whole human condition.
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They are in a high key, somewhat like impressionism or a modified impressionism. I think I'm still an impressionist.
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In every work of genius we recognize our own rejected thoughts; they come back to us with a certain alienated majesty.
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The only quality that endures in art is a personal vision of the world. Methods are transient: personality is enduring.
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Painting will have to deal more fully and less obliquely with life and nature's phenomena before it can again become great.
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I do not know why I chose one subject rather than another unless I believe them to be the best synthesis of my inner experience.
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If this end is unattainable, so, it can be said, is perfection in any other ideal of painting or in any other of man's activities.
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I am interested primarily in the vast field of experience and sensation which neither literature nor a purely plastic art deals with.
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Though I studied with Robert Henri, I was never a member of the Ash-Can School. You see, it had a sociological trend which didn't interest me.
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It seemed awful crude and raw here when I got back [after his return from his third and last trip to Europe, in 1910]. It took me ten years to get over Europe.
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I wish I could paint more.. I do dozens of sketches for oils.. if I do one that interests me I go on to make a painting but that happens only two or three times a year.
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I was always interested in architecture, but the editors [of the magazines who demanded these subjects for the illustrations of Hopper] wanted people waving with their arms.
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The technical obstacles of painting perhaps dictate this form. It derives also from the limitations of personality, and such may be the simplifications that I have attempted.
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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.
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Edward Hopper
Born:
July 22, 1882
Died:
May 15, 1967
(aged 84)
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