Edward Hopper
"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."
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"If you could say it in words there would be no reason to paint."
"More of me comes out when I improvise."
"The only real influence I've ever had was myself."
"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."
"I think that zinc white has a property of scaling and cracking."