“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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If you could say it in words there would be no reason to paint.
Edward Hopper 
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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
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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
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If the picture needs varnishing later, I allow a restorer to do that, if there's any restoring necessary.
Edward Hopper
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