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.
From Edward Hopper
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.
Painting will have to deal more fully and less obliquely with life and nature's phenomena before it can again become great.
In its most limited sense, modern, art would seem to concern itself only with the technical innovations of the period.
The question of the value of nationality in art is perhaps unsolvable.
Well, I've always been interested in approaching a big city in a train, and I can't exactly describe the sensations, but they're entirely human and perhaps have nothing to do with aesthetics.
I think that zinc white has a property of scaling and cracking.
I trust Winsor and Newton and I paint directly upon it.
Maybe I am not very human - what I wanted to do was to paint sunlight on the side of a house.
Well, I have a very simple method of painting.
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