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The people here in fact seem to live in the streets, which are alive from morning until night, not as they are in New York with that never-ending determination for the 'long-green', but with a pleasure-loving crowd that doesn’t care what it does or where it goes, so that it has a good time.

— 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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