Edward Hopper Quotes

The trend in some of the contemporary movements in art, but by no means all, seems to deny this ideal and to me appears to lead to a purely decorative conception of painting.

Edward Hopper

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• I feel like Adele is a diva. Not in the bad way. She is one of the greatest voices of this industry and of her own art. What she offers is so unique that she's risen to such a status that very few artists can enjoy.

  

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• Some painters transform the sun into a yellow spot, others transform a yellow spot into the sun.

  

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• Well, one always has an instinct to be a painter, and I've done quite a lot of painting at one time or another, though not with any public success.

  

  Quentin Blake
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• Life is painting a picture, not doing a sum.

  

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• I work in the film business, where schmoozing is an art form, lunch hour lasts from 12:30 until 3, and every meeting takes an hour whether there's an hour's worth of business or not.

  

  R. J. Cutler
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• Love isn't an emotion or an instinct - it's an art.

  

  Mae West
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• It's a crazy world, so sports and athletics and music can be a form of escapism.

  

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• Art, whatever form it takes, requires hard work, craftsmanship and creativity. As a writer, I know my grammar, cadence, the music of prose, and the art of the narrative.

  

  F. Sionil Jose
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• Teachers believe they have a gift for giving; it drives them with the same irrepressible drive that drives others to create a work of art or a market or a building.

  

  A. Bartlett Giamatti
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• Mathematics is, as it were, a sensuous logic, and relates to philosophy as do the arts, music, and plastic art to poetry.

  

  Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel
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• He drove his kind of realism at me so hard I bounced right into nonobjective painting.

  

  Jackson Pollock
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• We all know that Art is not truth. Art is a lie that makes us realize the truth, at least the truth that is given to us to understand.

  

  Pablo Picasso
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• You cannot live to please everyone else. You have to edify, educate and fulfill your own dreams and destiny, and hope that whatever your art is that you're putting out there, if it's received, great, I respect you for receiving it. If it's not received, great, I respect you for not.

  

  Octavia Spencer
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• Every good painter paints what he is.

  

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• What we have to do, what at any rate it is our duty to do, is to revive the old art of Lying.

  

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• Myself and David, we both love art. We have a lot of respect for Damien Hirst and Julian Schnabel, and we've met them both, and they're very interesting characters. I also have a lot of respect for the working women out there. As you know, it's not easy when you're looking after children and you have a career as well.

  

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• I strongly believe that the art of the novel works best when the writer identifies with whoever he or she is writing about. Novels in the end are based on the human capacity, compassion, and I can show more compassion to my characters if I write in a first person singular.

  

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• Before anything else, I started painting bulls and matadors. That was my initiation to paint.

  

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• If you scratch a great photograph, you find two things; a painting and a photograph.

  

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• Graffiti is one of the few tools you have if you have almost nothing. And even if you don't come up with a picture to cure world poverty you can make someone smile while they're having a piss.

  

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• You know it's very important, the role of a mother... I don't know, but it's feminism to me to love your kids.

  

  Carine Roitfeld
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• To be totally understanding makes one very indulgent.

  

  Madame de Stael
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• Before I liked to write, I liked to type. I remember visiting my grandmother Adele in Ponce Inlet, Florida, when I was three years old, and she had an IBM electric typewriter.

  

  Gabrielle Zevin
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• The trend in some of the contemporary movements in art, but by no means all, seems to deny this ideal and to me appears to lead to a purely decorative conception of painting.

  

  Edward Hopper
  • Art
  • Painting