Quotes by Edward Hopper - Page 1

More of me comes out when I improvise.
Edward Hopper / Painter
Improvise
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Well, I have a very simple method of painting.
Edward Hopper / Painter
Method
Painting
Simple
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The only real influence I've ever had was myself.
Edward Hopper / Painter
Influence
Real
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I trust Winsor and Newton and I paint directly upon it.
Edward Hopper / Painter
Trust
Newton
Paint
Directly
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If I had the energy, I would have done it all over the county.
Edward Hopper / Painter
County
Done
Energy
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I think that zinc white has a property of scaling and cracking.
Edward Hopper / Painter
Zinc
Property
Thinking
White
Cracking
Scaling
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If you could say it in words there would be no reason to paint.
Edward Hopper / Painter
Art
Smile
Creative
No Reason
Paint
Painting
Reason
Would Be
Words
You
Could
Say
Would
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I find linseed oil and white lead the most satisfactory mediums.
Edward Hopper / Painter
Artist
Mediums
Oil
White
Lead
Satisfactory
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What I wanted to do was to paint sunlight on the side of a house.
Edward Hopper / Painter
Art
House
Paint
Sides
Sunlight
Wanted
Side
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The question of the value of nationality in art is perhaps unsolvable.
Edward Hopper / Painter
Art
Nationality
Values
Unsolvable
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There is a sort of elation about sunlight on the upper part of a house.
Edward Hopper / Painter
Elation
House
Sunlight
Upper
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No amount of skillful invention can replace the essential element of imagination.
Edward Hopper / Painter
Art
Smile
Design
Imagination
Amount
Aquariums
Invention
Skillful
Element
Essential
Replace
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So many people say painting is fun. I don't find it fun at all. It's hard work for me.
Edward Hopper / Painter
Art
Fun
Hard Work
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I guess I'm not very human. All I really want to do is paint light on the side of a house.
Edward Hopper / Painter
House
Light
Want
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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 / Painter
House
Paint
Sunlight
Wanted
Side
Maybe
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I use a retouching varnish which is made in France, Libert, and that's all the varnish I use.
Edward Hopper / Painter
Artist
France
Use
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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 / Painter
Artist
Form
Impressive
Sensations
Congenial
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If the picture needs varnishing later, I allow a restorer to do that, if there's any restoring necessary.
Edward Hopper / Painter
Artist
Needs
Restoring
Picture
Allow
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In general it can be said that a nation's art is greatest when it most reflects the character of its people.
Edward Hopper / Painter
Art
Character
People
Reflects
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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 / Painter
Goes On
Painting
Week
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To me the most important thing is the sense of going on. You know how beautiful things are when you're traveling.
Edward Hopper / Painter
Beautiful
Important
Know How
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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 / Painter
Aim
Artist
Impression
Intimate
Painting
Exact
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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 / Painter
Art
Smile
Concern
Innovation
Modern
Modern Art
Periods
Period
Innovations
Limited
Technical
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The only quality that endures in art is a personal vision of the world. Methods are transient: personality is enduring.
Edward Hopper / Painter
Art
Personality
Vision
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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 / Painter
Deals
Painting
Phenomena
Fully
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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 / Painter
Oil
Poppies
Use
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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 / Painter
Art
Great
Artist
Expression
Great Art
Inner Life
Vision
World
Life Art Great
His
Inner
Outward
Personal
Result
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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 / Painter
Eye
Giving
Perspective
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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 / Painter
Believe
Canvas
Emotion
Force
Intellect
Paint
Records
Unwilling
Great Believe I Believe
Attempted
Master
Emotions
Record
Medium
Painters
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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 / Painter
Art
Conception
Contemporary
Deny
Ethos
Mean
Painting
Appears
Art Me Painting
Decorative
Ideal
Movements
Purely
Trend
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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 / Painter
Accurate
Artist
Expression
Innovation
Representation
Enlarging
Impressionist
Innovations
Led
Merely
Powers
Technical
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It's (the lack of communication between the people in his paintings, ed.) probably a reflection of my own, if I may say, loneliness. I don't know. It could be the whole human condition.
Edward Hopper / Painter
Communication
Loneliness
Reflection
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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 / Painter
Aesthetic
Artist
Bigs
Cities
Sensations
Approaching
Big City
Describe
Entirely
Exactly
Perhaps
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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 / Painter
Character
Deny
Inheritance
Surface
Trying
Veneer
Attempt
French
Impose
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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 / Painter
Disturbing
Elements
Inevitable
Intrusion
Replacements
Vision
Work Vision Always
Interested
Work Always Find
Proceeds
Replacement
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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 / Painter
Art
Expression
Important
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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 / Painter
Funny
Artist
Canvas
Method
Oil
Paint
Pure
Use
Adding
Almost
Becomes
Directly
Help
Medium
Possibly
Start
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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 / Painter
Accidents
Artist
Capable
Humility
Intimate
Reactions
Study
Surprise
Sympathetic
Thinking
Wonder
Attempt
Basic
Grasp
Moods
Renewed
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The idea (for the painting 'Room in New York', 1932, ed.) had been in my mind a long time before I painted it. It was suggested by glimpses of lighted interiors seen as I walked along city streets at night, probably near the district where I live (Washington Square, New York, fh) although it's no particular street or house, but is really a synthesis of many impressions.
Edward Hopper / Painter
New York
Cities
Night
Squares
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Everyone goes to the 'Grands-Boulevards' (in Paris, ed.) and let himself loose... ...Do not picture these in costume, they are not for the most part... ...perhaps a clown with a big nose, or two girls with bare necks and short skirts... ...the parade of the queens of the halls (markets) is also one of the events... ...Some are pretty but look awkward in their silk dresses and crowns, particularly as the broad sun displays their defects - perhaps a neck too thin or a painted face which shows ghastley white in the sunlight.
Edward Hopper / Painter
Girl
Queens
Paris
Two
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One of the weaknesses of much abstract painting is the attempt to substitute the inventions of the intellect for a pristine imaginative conception. The inner life of a human being is a vast and varied realm and does not concern itself alone with stimulating arrangements of color, form and design. The term 'life' as used in art is something not to be held in contempt, for it applies all of its existence, and the province of art is to react to it and not to shun it. Painting will have to deal more fully and less obliquely with life and nature's phenomena before it can again be great.
Edward Hopper / Painter
Art
Design
Color
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