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The only quality that endures in art is a personal vision of the world. Methods are transient: personality is enduring. — Edward Hopper

Painting will have to deal more fully and less obliquely with life and nature's phenomena before it can again become great. — Edward Hopper

If I had the energy, I would have done it all over the county. — Edward Hopper

My mom used to tell me: 'It's not what you weigh; it's what you look like.' — Gina Carano

My aim in painting has always been the most exact transcription possible of my most intimate impression of nature. — Edward Hopper

I have tried to present my sensations in what is the most congenial and impressive form possible to me. — Edward Hopper

One voice is tiny, and alone it cannot be heard above the din of politics as usual. The peoples voice, when it cries as one, is a great roar. — Ross Perot

If the picture needs varnishing later, I allow a restorer to do that, if there's any restoring necessary. — Edward Hopper

More of me comes out when I improvise. — Edward Hopper

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

When I don't feel in the mood for painting I go to the movies for a week or more. I go on a regular movie binge! — Edward Hopper

If you could say it in words, there would be no reason to paint. — Edward Hopper

The question of the value of nationality in art is perhaps unsolvable. — Edward Hopper

So many people say painting is fun. I don't find it fun at all. It's hard work for me. — Edward Hopper

I trust Winsor and Newton and I paint directly upon it. — Edward Hopper

To me the most important thing is the sense of going on. You know how beautiful things are when you're traveling. — Edward Hopper

Yes, linseed oil. I used to use poppy oil, but I have heard that poppy oil is given to cracking pigment too, so I use it no longer. — Edward Hopper

I guess I'm not very human. All I really want to do is paint light on the side of a house. — Edward Hopper

All of us are prisoners, to one degree or another, of our experience. — Gary Hamel

No amount of skillful invention can replace the essential element of imagination. — Edward Hopper

Well, I have a very simple method of painting. — Edward Hopper

I'm hopelessly in love with him. — Rainbow Rowell

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

What do you want your business to do? Make money, of course. To pay for people and supplies, to be able to grow. — Margaret Heffernan

I worry about people who sell out to chase fame because when they get it, it might not be so satisfying. — Imelda May

There is a sort of elation about sunlight on the upper part of a house. — Edward Hopper

Words in the air blow away as soon as you say them, but words on paper last forever — Vince Vawter

Crime requires further crime to conceal it. — Seneca The Younger

In its most limited sense, modern, art would seem to concern itself only with the technical innovations of the period. — Edward Hopper

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. — Edward Hopper

What I wanted to do was to paint sunlight on the side of a house. — Edward Hopper

Goddamn everything but the circus — E. E. Cummings

The only real influence I've ever had is myself. — Edward Hopper

The music never leaves. Once you have it, you can't lose it. — Luanne Rice

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

In general it can be said that a nation's art is greatest when it most reflects the character of its people. — Edward Hopper

Obviously, it has taken time to work with the players around me and with so many new faces coming in the summer, in a way it's been more difficult. — Frank Lampard