Edward Hopper Quotes and its meanings

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• 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.
• In general it can be said that a nation's art is greatest when it most reflects the character of its people.
• In its most limited sense, modern, art would seem to concern itself only with the technical innovations of the period.
• 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.
• No amount of skillful invention can replace the essential element of imagination.
• 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.
• My aim in painting has always been the most exact transcription possible of my most intimate impression of nature.
• Painting will have to deal more fully and less obliquely with life and nature's phenomena before it can again become great.
• I trust Winsor and Newton and I paint directly upon it.
• 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.