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My aim in painting has always been the most exact transcription possible of my most intimate impressions of nature.
Notes on Painting - Edward Hopper (1933)
If this end is unattainable, so, it can be said, is perfection in any other ideal of painting or in any other of man's activities.
Notes on Painting - Edward Hopper (1933)
The technical obstacles of painting perhaps dictate this form. It derives also from the limitations of personality, and such may be the simplifications that I have attempted.
Notes on Painting - Edward Hopper (1933)
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.
Notes on Painting - Edward Hopper (1933)
The trend in some of the contemporary movements in art, but by no means all, seems to deny this ideal and to me appears to lead to a purely decorative conception of painting.
Notes on Painting - Edward Hopper (1933)
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..
Notes on Painting - Edward Hopper (1933)