"No amount of skillful invention can replace the essential element of imagination." ― Edward Hopper Topic(s): Imagination More From Edward Hopper "I trust Winsor and Newton and I paint directly upon it." "It’s to paint directly on the canvas without any funny business, as it were, and I use almost pure turpentine to start with, adding oil as I go along until the medium becomes pure oil. I use as little oil as I can possibly help, and that’s my method." More In Imagination "Everyone told me to pass on Speed because it was a ‘bus movie.’"― Sandra Bullock "Falling in love consists merely in uncorking the imagination and bottling the common sense."― Helen Rowland "Vision – It reaches beyond the thing that is, into the conception of what can be. Imagination gives you the picture. Vision gives you the impulse to make the picture your own."― Robert Collier