No amount of skillful invention can replace the essential element of imagination.
Edward Hopper
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- Great art is the outward expression of an inner life in the artist, and this inner life will result in his personal vision of the world.
- In general it can be said that a nation's art is greatest when it most reflects the character of its people.
- In its most limited sense, modern, art would seem to concern itself only with the technical innovations of the period.
- The question of the value of nationality in art is perhaps unsolvable.
- 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.