Edward Hopper Quotes

If you could say it in words there would be no reason to paint.
Edward Hopper

Words, Reason, Paint

More of me comes out when I improvise.
Edward Hopper

What I wanted to do was to paint sunlight on the side of a house.
Edward Hopper

Wanted, House, Side

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

Life, Great, Art

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

Character, Nothing, After

Maybe I am not very human - what I wanted to do was to paint sunlight on the side of a house.
Edward Hopper

Human, Wanted, House

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

Great, Emotions, Force

In general it can be said that a nation's art is greatest when it most reflects the character of its people.
Edward Hopper

Art, Character, Greatest

No amount of skillful invention can replace the essential element of imagination.
Edward Hopper

Essential, Invention, Replace

I have tried to present my sensations in what is the most congenial and impressive form possible to me.
Edward Hopper

Possible, Present, Impressive

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

Nature, Value, Expression

The only real influence I've ever had was myself.
Edward Hopper

Real, Influence

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

Work, Find, Working

I find linseed oil and white lead the most satisfactory mediums.
Edward Hopper

Find, Lead, White

I think that zinc white has a property of scaling and cracking.
Edward Hopper

White, Property, Cracking

I trust Winsor and Newton and I paint directly upon it.
Edward Hopper

Trust, Paint, Directly

I use a retouching varnish which is made in France, Libert, and that's all the varnish I use.
Edward Hopper

If I had the energy, I would have done it all over the county.
Edward Hopper

Done, Energy, County

If the picture needs varnishing later, I allow a restorer to do that, if there's any restoring necessary.
Edward Hopper

Picture, Needs, Necessary

In its most limited sense, modern, art would seem to concern itself only with the technical innovations of the period.
Edward Hopper

Art, Sense, Seem

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

Funny, Business, Help

My aim in painting has always been the most exact transcription possible of my most intimate impression of nature.
Edward Hopper

Nature, Possible, Painting

Painting will have to deal more fully and less obliquely with life and nature's phenomena before it can again become great.
Edward Hopper

Life, Nature, Great

The question of the value of nationality in art is perhaps unsolvable.
Edward Hopper

Art, 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

Art, Means, Seems

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Biography

Nationality: American

Type: Artist

Born: July 22, 1882

Died: May 15, 1967

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