Yeah Bobert! The way they hides mistakes from other musicians is, they calls it "style"!!

The Hopper painting you are referring to is titled "Nighthawks". "Early Sunday Morning" is a 1930's looking New York type sidewalk with two-story buildings and small shops at sidewalk level. The light is coming in in that low horizontal direction and all the windows are dark but edged with the coming dawn. You can just feel the picture breath becasue it has life in it somehow. You feel the sleeping souls and perhaps those who are just awakening to meet a new day on the same old sidewalks. It is a tremendous work, an American masterpiece if ever there was one. Check it out when you get the chance. An exhibit of Hopper came to SF about 20 some years ago and I was priviledged to see it. It makes me want to throw my colors away! I think, what's the use? when I see the works of true masters. I get that way about Rembrandt, Dali, Van Gough. Pizzaro, Manet, Monet, etc. if you know what I mean. Nah, I'll just keep plugging away, thankful that I have enough talent to appreciate the greats!