"Yes, linseed oil. I used to use poppy oil, but I have heard that poppy oil is given to cracking pigment too, so I use it no longer."

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Source : 'Oral history interview with Edward Hopper' conducted by John Morse, 'Archives of American Art', Smithsonian Institution, June 17, 1959.

Edward Hopper

#Oil Quotes #Use Quotes #Poppies Quotes

“Our leaders will serve the common good with better laws and better actions only when we serve it first, by casting better votes.”
“There is work to do; that is why I cannot stop or sit still. As long as a child needs help, as long as people are not free, there will be work to do. As long as an elderly person is attacked or in need of support, there is work to do. As long as we have bigotry and crime, we have work to do.”

Source : Rosa Parks, Gregory J. Reed (1994). “Quiet Strength: The Faith, the Hope, and the Heart of a Woman who Changed a Nation”, Zondervan
“I look at my contemporaries, and we're all at different stages and levels, and all choosing different routes, different ways to do things.”
“The final result of too much routine is death in life.”
“A large part of my work has been collaborating with composers; I think we've commissioned about 140 pieces now, a lot of them percussion concertos.”
“Books permit us to voyage through time, to tap the wisdom of our ancestors.”
“Studies find top 3 most stressful moments in people's lives: death, divorce, and properly pronouncing "Worcestershire sauce."”
“Life would be stunted and narrow if we could feel no significance in the world around us beyond that which can be weighed and measured with the tools of the physicist or described by the metrical symbols of the mathematician.”

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