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Paris is a very graceful and beautiful city, almost too formal and sweet to the taste after the raw disorder of New York. Everything seems to have been planned with the purpose of forming a most harmonious whole, which certainly has been done.. .Every street here is alive with all sorts of conditions of people, priests, nuns, students, and always the little soldiers with wide red pants.

— Edward Hopper

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Recognition does not mean so much, you never get it when you need it.

It takes a long time for an idea to strike.

Originality is neither a matter of inventiveness nor method, it is the essence of personality.

All I ever wanted to do is to paint sunlight on the side of a wall.

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