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“No amount of skillful invention can replace the essential element of imagination.”

Edward Hopper · Imagination

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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.

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Edward Hopper

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

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Edward Hopper

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

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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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