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Gerry Souter

Edward Hopper

  • Ирина Меркуловаhas quoted7 years ago
    went to school copying weekly magazine covers created by the great illustrators of the time: Edwin Austin Abbey, Charles Dana Gibson, Gilbert Gaul, as well as the sketches of Old Masters: Rembrandt and Jean-Auguste-Dominique Ingres.
  • Ирина Меркуловаhas quoted7 years ago
    He always came back to the sea and shore throughout his life, back to the big sky continuously redrawing itself in white on blue from opal pale to dangerous cerulean
  • Ирина Меркуловаhas quoted7 years ago
    While the elder Hopper struggled with his business books and accounts, Edward was at home in his library with shelves groaning under English, French, and Russian classic literature. From Turgenev to Victor Hugo and Tolstoy, Edward
  • Ирина Меркуловаhas quoted7 years ago
    more intimate and sympathetic study of its moods
  • Ирина Меркуловаhas quoted7 years ago
    Hopper needed no signature and its value never dropped.
  • Ирина Меркуловаhas quoted7 years ago
    His work is his autobiogra
  • Ирина Меркуловаhas quoted7 years ago
    He was a recluse, a captive of his overachieving upbringing, a prisoner of humiliating memories of early rejection, the tenant of his failing body, and the sole occupant of a darkly silent philosophy that resonated with virtually anyone who confronted his work.
  • Ирина Меркуловаhas quoted7 years ago
    The man’s the work. Something doesn’t come out of nothing.
    — Edward Hopper
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