"No amount of skillful invention can replace the essential element of imagination."
-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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"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."
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"My aim in painting has always been the most exact transcription possible of my most intimate impression of nature."
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"I trust Winsor and Newton and I paint directly upon it."
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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."
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"There will be, I think, an attempt to grasp again the surprise and accidents of nature and a more intimate and sympathetic study of its moods, together with a renewed wonder and humility on the part of such as are still capable of these basic reactions."
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