“Painting will have to deal more fully and less obliquely with life and...” — Edward Hopper Quote

Painting will have to deal more fully and less obliquely with life and nature's phenomena before it can again become great.

I think that zinc white has a property of scaling and cracking.

In general it can be said that a nation's art is greatest when it most reflects the character of its people.

My aim in painting has always been the most exact transcription possible of my most intimate impression of nature.

If you could say it in words there would be no reason to paint.

Few if any countries understand the growing importance of water as fully as Turkey does.

I make singers sing every note fully and wait till they hit the right note.

I guess I have a faith. I have an overriding feeling that all of this can't be for nothing. But then I also fully understand that it might be.

I didn't fully realize it at the time, but the goal of my life was profoundly molded by this experience - to help produce, in the next generation, more Mother Teresas and less Hitlers.

We have got to fully guarantee and fund the NDIS so we invest in people with disability so they can be the people they want to be and start paying taxes, not get pensions.