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Quote by Edward Hopper

“The only real influence I've ever had is myself.”

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Edward Hopper was an American painter known for his paintings that depicted modern urban life. His works often conveyed a sense of loneliness, solitude, and contemplation, particularly in his night scenes of city landscapes. Hopper's style was unique, with simple yet expressive color use, and had a profound impact on 20th-century American art. more

“It is the very essence of art,' she [Hallie Flanagan:] told a group gathered in Washington . . ., 'that it exceed bounds, often including those of tradition, decorum, and that mysterious thing called taste. It is the essence of art that it shatter accepted patterns, advance into unknown territory, challenge the existing order. Art is highly explosive. To be worth its salt it must have in that salt a fair sprinkling of gunpowder.”

Art Essence

Book:Furious Improvisation: How the Wpa and a Cast of Thousands Made High Art Out of Desperate Times

Source: Furious Improvisation: How the Wpa and a Cast of Thousands Made High Art Out of Desperate Times

“In the past an artist produced things that were necessary socially; they were instruments, albeit of a special kind, that helped the dead reach eternity, spells to be cast, prayers to be liturgically fleshed. . . . The aesthetic component of those instruments enhanced their function but was never central, never an independent, nonutilitarian thing.”

Art Aesthetics

Book:Highcastle: A Remembrance

Source: Highcastle: A Remembrance

“Thinking is not a thing that can undo itself. It can never be its own solution.”

Thinking Art

Book:boring boring boring boring boring boring boring

Source: boring boring boring boring boring boring boring

Quote by Edward Hopper

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