Edward Hopper Quotes
"No amount of skillful invention can replace the essential element of imagination."
- Edward Hopper
(Related: Imagination, Invention)
"Painting will have to deal more fully and less obliquely with life and nature's phenomena before it can again become great."
- Edward Hopper
(Related: Life, Nature, Painting, Will)
"The only real influence I've ever had was myself."
- Edward Hopper
(Related: Influence)
"The question of the value of nationality in art is perhaps unsolvable."
- Edward Hopper
(Related: Art, Nationality, Question, Value)
"The trend in some of the contemporary movements in art, but by no means all, seems to deny this ideal and to me appears to lead to a purely decorative conception of painting."
- Edward Hopper
(Related: Art, Painting)
"There is a sort of elation about sunlight on the upper part of a house."
- Edward Hopper
"There will be, I think, an attempt to grasp again the surprise and accidents of nature and a more intimate and sympathetic study of its moods, together with a renewed wonder and humility on the part of such as are still capable of these basic reactions."
- Edward Hopper
(Related: Nature, Accidents, Humility, Moods, Study, Will, Wonder)
"Well, I've always been interested in approaching a big city in a train, and I can't exactly describe the sensations, but they're entirely human and perhaps have nothing to do with aesthetics."
- Edward Hopper
(Related: Aesthetics, Nothing, Sensations)
"Maybe I am not very human - what I wanted to do was to paint sunlight on the side of a house."
- Edward Hopper
"I find in working always the disturbing intrusion of elements not a part of my most interested vision, and the inevitable obliteration and replacement of this vision by the work itself as it proceeds."
- Edward Hopper
(Related: Work, Vision)
"I find linseed oil and white lead the most satisfactory mediums."
- Edward Hopper
(Related: Oil)
"I have tried to present my sensations in what is the most congenial and impressive form possible to me."
- Edward Hopper
(Related: Present, Sensations)
"Well, I have a very simple method of painting."
- Edward Hopper
(Related: Painting)
"I use a retouching varnish which is made in France, Libert, and that's all the varnish I use."
- Edward Hopper
(Related: France)
"I think that zinc white has a property of scaling and cracking."
- Edward Hopper
(Related: Property)
"After all, we are not French and never can be, and any attempt to be so is to deny our inheritance and to try to impose upon ourselves a character that can be nothing but a veneer upon the surface."
- Edward Hopper
(Related: Character, Inheritance, Nothing)
"Great art is the outward expression of an inner life in the artist, and this inner life will result in his personal vision of the world."
- Edward Hopper
(Related: Art, Life, Vision, Artist, Expression, Result, Will, World)
"My aim in painting has always been the most exact transcription possible of my most intimate impression of nature."
- Edward Hopper
(Related: Nature, Impression, Painting)
"I trust Winsor and Newton and I paint directly upon it."
- Edward Hopper
(Related: Trust)
"More of me comes out when I improvise."
- Edward Hopper
"If I had the energy, I would have done it all over the county."
- Edward Hopper
(Related: Energy)
"If the picture needs varnishing later, I allow a restorer to do that, if there's any restoring necessary."
- Edward Hopper
(Related: Needs)
"If the technical innovations of the Impressionists led merely to a more accurate representation of nature, it was perhaps of not much value in enlarging their powers of expression."
- Edward Hopper
(Related: Nature, Expression, Value)
"If you could say it in words there would be no reason to paint."
- Edward Hopper
(Related: Reason, Words)
"In general it can be said that a nation's art is greatest when it most reflects the character of its people."
- Edward Hopper
(Related: Art, People, Character, Nation)
"In its most limited sense, modern, art would seem to concern itself only with the technical innovations of the period."
- Edward Hopper
(Related: Art, Concern, Sense)
"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."
- Edward Hopper
(Related: Funny, Business, Help, Oil)
"I believe that the great painters with their intellect as master have attempted to force this unwilling medium of paint and canvas into a record of their emotions."
- Edward Hopper
(Related: Emotions, Force, Intellect)