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It’s (the lack of communication between the people in his paintings, ed.) probably a reflection of my own, if I may say, loneliness. I don’t know. It could be the whole human condition.
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interview by Aline Saarinen, Sunday Show, NBC-tv, 1964, transcript, p. 3

 

Edward Hopper

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