“To me the most important thing is the sense of going on. You know how beautiful things are when you're traveling.”

'Edward Hopper in Saõ Paulo', as cited by William C. Seitz, Smithsonian Press, Washington D.C., 1967
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prominent American realist painter and printmaker 1882–1967

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