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Top 35 Edward Hopper Quotes (2024 Update)

Edward Hopper Quote: “If you could say it in words, there would be no reason to paint.”
Edward Hopper Quote: “No amount of skillful invention can replace the essential element of imagination.”
Edward Hopper Quote: “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 Quote: “Well, I have a very simple method of painting.”
Edward Hopper Quote: “My aim in painting has always been the most exact transcription possible of my most intimate impression of nature.”
Edward Hopper Quote: “So much of every art is an expression of the subconscious that it seems to me most of all the important qualities are put there unconsciously, and little of importance by the conscious intellect. But these are things for the psychologist to untangle.”
Edward Hopper Quote: “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 Quote: “I think that zinc white has a property of scaling and cracking.”
Edward Hopper Quote: “Maybe I am not very human – all I ever wanted to do was to paint sunlight on the side of a house.”
Edward Hopper Quote: “More of me comes out when I improvise.”
Edward Hopper Quote: “What I wanted to do was to paint sunlight on the side of a house.”
Edward Hopper Quote: “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 Quote: “In general it can be said that a nation’s art is greatest when it most reflects the character of its people.”
Edward Hopper Quote: “When I don’t feel in the mood for painting I go to the movies for a week or more. I go on a regular movie binge!”
Edward Hopper Quote: “Yes, linseed oil. I used to use poppy oil, but I have heard that poppy oil is given to cracking pigment too, so I use it no longer.”
Edward Hopper Quote: “To me the most important thing is the sense of going on. You know how beautiful things are when you’re traveling.”
Edward Hopper Quote: “The only quality that endures in art is a personal vision of the world. Methods are transient: personality is enduring.”
Edward Hopper Quote: “So many people say painting is fun. I don’t find it fun at all. It’s hard work for me.”
Edward Hopper Quote: “There is a sort of elation about sunlight on the upper part of a house.”
Edward Hopper Quote: “The only real influence I’ve ever had was myself.”
Edward Hopper Quote: “I use a retouching varnish which is made in France, Libert, and that’s all the varnish I use.”
Edward Hopper Quote: “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 Quote: “Painting will have to deal more fully and less obliquely with life and nature’s phenomena before it can again become great.”
Edward Hopper Quote: “I find linseed oil and white lead the most satisfactory mediums.”
Edward Hopper Quote: “I trust Winsor and Newton and I paint directly upon it.”
Edward Hopper Quote: “Methods are transient: personality is enduring.”
Edward Hopper Quote: “I have tried to present my sensations in what is the most congenial and impressive form possible to me.”
Edward Hopper Quote: “If the picture needs varnishing later, I allow a restorer to do that, if there’s any restoring necessary.”
Edward Hopper Quote: “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 Quote: “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 Quote: “I once got a little camera to use for details of architecture and so forth but the photo was always so different from the perspective the eye gives, I gave it up.”
Edward Hopper Quote: “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 Quote: “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 Quote: “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 Quote: “The question of the value of nationality in art is perhaps unsolvable.”
Edward Hopper Quote: “If I had the energy, I would have done it all over the county.”
Edward Hopper Quote: “In its most limited sense, modern, art would seem to concern itself only with the technical innovations of the period.”
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