Reason To Paint, Hopper and Rilke

Brittany Coast 5

  oil on panel  11" x 14"

"If we could say it in words there would be no reason to paint."

Edward Hopper

Brittany Coast 8

 oil on panel   9.75" x 16"

"... the work of art brings to the life of one who must make it - that it is his epitome;  the knot in the rosary at which his life recites a prayer."

R. M. Rilke

A pair based on the idea of the heaving, roiling sea - completely absorbed in the task as they evolved and without care for time or endings - perhaps this 

is what Hopper and Rilke refer to.