Edward Hopper Quotes, Sayings, Remarks, Thoughts and Speeches



Edward Hopper Quotes and Sayings


  • 1
    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 | Refcard PDF
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    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 | Refcard PDF
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    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 | Refcard PDF
  • 4
    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 | Refcard PDF
  • 5
    I find linseed oil and white lead the most satisfactory mediums. Edward Hopper | Refcard PDF
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    I have tried to present my sensations in what is the most congenial and impressive form possible to me. Edward Hopper | Refcard PDF
  • 7
    I think that zinc white has a property of scaling and cracking. Edward Hopper | Refcard PDF
  • 8
    I trust Winsor and Newton and I paint directly upon it. Edward Hopper | Refcard PDF
  • 9
    I use a retouching varnish which is made in France, Libert, and that's all the varnish I use. Edward Hopper | Refcard PDF
  • 10
    If I had the energy, I would have done it all over the county. Edward Hopper | Refcard PDF
  • 11
    If the picture needs varnishing later, I allow a restorer to do that, if there's any restoring necessary. Edward Hopper | Refcard PDF
  • 12
    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 | Refcard PDF
  • 13
    If you could say it in words there would be no reason to paint. Edward Hopper | Refcard PDF
  • 14
    In general it can be said that a nation's art is greatest when it most reflects the character of its people. Edward Hopper | Refcard PDF
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    In its most limited sense, modern, art would seem to concern itself only with the technical innovations of the period. Edward Hopper | Refcard PDF
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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. Edward Hopper | Refcard PDF
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    Maybe I am not very human - what I wanted to do was to paint sunlight on the side of a house. Edward Hopper | Refcard PDF
  • 18
    More of me comes out when I improvise. Edward Hopper | Refcard PDF
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    My aim in painting has always been the most exact transcription possible of my most intimate impression of nature. Edward Hopper | Refcard PDF
  • 20
    No amount of skillful invention can replace the essential element of imagination. Edward Hopper | Refcard PDF
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    Painting will have to deal more fully and less obliquely with life and nature's phenomena before it can again become great. Edward Hopper | Refcard PDF
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    The only real influence I've ever had was myself. Edward Hopper | Refcard PDF
  • 23
    The question of the value of nationality in art is perhaps unsolvable. Edward Hopper | Refcard PDF
  • 24
    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 | Refcard PDF
  • 25
    There is a sort of elation about sunlight on the upper part of a house. Edward Hopper | Refcard PDF
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    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 | Refcard PDF
  • 27
    Well, I have a very simple method of painting. Edward Hopper | Refcard PDF
  • 28
    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 | Refcard PDF
  • 29
    What I wanted to do was to paint sunlight on the side of a house. Edward Hopper | Refcard PDF

 

  

  

 

  

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