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  • 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.

    "Oral history interview with Edward Hopper". Interview with John Morse, www.aaa.si.edu. June 17, 1959..