I believe that the great painters with their intellect as master have attempted to force this unwilling medium of paint and canvas into a record of their emotions.
From Edward Hopper
The only real influence I've ever had was myself.
I have tried to present my sensations in what is the most congenial and impressive form possible to me.
If the picture needs varnishing later, I allow a restorer to do that, if there's any restoring necessary.
If the technical innovations of the Impressionists led merely to a more accurate representation of nature, it was perhaps of not much value in enlarging their powers of expression.
It's to paint directly on the canvas without any funny business, as it were, and I use almost pure turpentine to start with, adding oil as I go along until the medium becomes pure oil. I use as little oil as I can possibly help, and that's my method.
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