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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.

— Edward Hopper

Sentiment: NEGATIVE

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✓Similar Perspectives

In my art, I deconstruct and then I reconstruct, so visual perception is one of my primary interests.

— Chuck Close

For me, a lot of my work has dealt with what it means to be at the center of the universe and how alienating and kind of seductive it is. A lot of my work is very aggressive and very visual, but at the same time, it has a lot of tension in it and makes you kind of uncomfortable sometimes.

— Marco Brambilla

I think when you focus on the work, it becomes a simpler pursuit.

— Sarah Gadon

It is not sufficient to see and to know the beauty of a work. We must feel and be affected by it.

— Voltaire

Vision connects you. But it also separates you. In my work, and my life, I feel a desire to merge. Not in terms of losing my own identity... but there's a feeling that life is interconnected, that there's life in stones and rocks and trees and dirt, like there is in us.

— Bill Viola

If your job is to leaven ordinary lives with elevating spectacle, be elevating or be gone.

— George Will

I slowly dismantled the act of painting, to consider the possibility that no-thing ever really transcends its immediate environment.

— Robert Irwin

Every great work, every big accomplishment, has been brought into manifestation through holding to the vision, and often just before the big achievement, comes apparent failure and discouragement.

— Florence Scovel Shinn

Vision looks inward and becomes duty.

— Stephen Samuel Wise

✗Opposing Perspectives

When I view the world, I don't think of my own work. I think of my hope that, through art, people can get a sense of the type of invisible fabric that holds us all together, that holds the world together.

— Jeff Koons