Quote #10
No amount of skillful invention can replace the essential element of imagination.
More from Edward Hopper
- Maybe I am slightly inhuman ... all I ever wanted to do was to paint sunlight on the side of a house.
- Unconsciously, probably, I was painting the loneliness of a large city.
- Whom did I meet? Nobody. I'd heard of Gertrude Stein, but I don't remember having heard of Picasso at all. I used to go to the cafes at nig…
- The man's the work. Something doesn't come out of nothing.
- I can't exactly describe the sensations, but they're entirely human and perhaps have nothing to do with aesthetics.
- I am interested primarily in the vast field of experience and sensation.
- I can't always agree with what critics say - it may be true; it may not be true.
- Why I select certain subjects rather than others ,I do not exactly know,unless it is that I believe them to be the best medium for a synthe…