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Maybe I am not very human - what I wanted to do was to paint sunlight on the side of a house.

~Edward Hopper

Topics: Am House Human Maybe Paint Side Sunlight Very Wanted I Am

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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

Topics: Attempted Believe Canvas Emotions Force Great Intellect Master Medium Paint Painters Record Unwilling I Believe I Believe That

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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.

~Edward Hopper

Topics: Always Disturbing Elements Find Inevitable Interested Itself Most Part Proceeds Replacement Vision Work Working

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I find linseed oil and white lead the most satisfactory mediums.

~Edward Hopper

Topics: Find Lead Mediums Most Oil Satisfactory White

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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

Topics: Accurate Enlarging Expression Impressionist Innovations Led Merely More Much Nature Perhaps Powers Representation Technical Value

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Well, I have a very simple method of painting.

~Edward Hopper

Topics: Method Painting Simple Very Well

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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

Topics: Aim Always Been Exact Impression Intimate Most Nature Painting Possible

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I think that zinc white has a property of scaling and cracking.

~Edward Hopper

Topics: Cracking Property Think White I Think

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I trust Winsor and Newton and I paint directly upon it.

~Edward Hopper

Topics: Directly Newton Paint Trust

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I use a retouching varnish which is made in France, Libert, and that's all the varnish I use.

~Edward Hopper

Topics: France Made Use Which

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Biography

Nationality: American

Type: Artist

Born: July 22nd, 1882

Died: May 15th, 1967

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