"I have tried to present my sensations in what is the most congenial and impressive form possible to me."

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Source : Ita G. Berkow, Edward Hopper (1996). “Edward Hopper: An American Master”, Smithmark Publishers

Edward Hopper

#Artist Quotes #Form Quotes #Impressive Quotes

“I had excellent opportunity to intoxicate myself with the solemn splendor of the brilliant church festivals. As was only natural, the abbot seemed to me, as the village priest had once seemed to my father, the highest and most desirable ideal.”
“My four articles of faith: clarity, simplicity, brevity and humanity.”
“If you really believe something, you will act in accordance with that belief - always. If you believe in gravity, you will never attempt to defy it. If you claim to hold a belief but act incongruently, then you don't actually believe it. You're only kidding yourself. Casual faith isn't.”
“Large action arrest small action.”
“During that long terrible ride to Munich, I finally swallowed the bitter pill of my lover's rejection and poisoned myself with it. I murdered the personality I was born with and transformed myself from a butterfly back in into a caterpillar. That night I learned to seek the shadows, to prefer silence”
“The spiritual experience isnâ€™t one of filling ourselves upâ€” with either religious or intellectual beliefsâ€”but of emptying ourselves so that we can experience what is, directly, unfiltered.”
“There are times I wish I didn't have a job, even though I love my job: I get to work with interesting, eccentric colleagues and equally interesting and eccentric subject matter, both of which are rarities. But, naturally, I would treasure having more freedom someday: of time and of movement. Will I always have a full-time job? I don't know. But I do know that I need to spend at least part of my week in an office, with other people.”

Source : Interview with Alexis Cheung, believermag.com. November 20, 2017.
“Races are very often invented from ignorance, or for very evil purposes.”

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