"No amount of skillful invention can replace the essential element of imagination." ― Edward Hopper Topic(s): Imagination More From Edward Hopper "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." "I trust Winsor and Newton and I paint directly upon it." More In Imagination "The product of the scientific imagination is a new vision of relations – like that of artistic imagination."― Edmund Wilson "By going over your day in imagination before you begin it, you can begin acting successfully at any moment."― Dorthea Brande "I used my imagination to make the grass whatever color I wanted it to be."― Whoopi Goldberg