I guess I'm not very human. All I really want to do is paint light on the side of a house. — Edward Hopper Copy Share Image
So many people say painting is fun. I don't find it fun at all. It's hard work for me. — Edward Hopper Copy Share Image
I believe that the great painters with their intellect as master have attempted to force this unwilling medium of paint and canvas… — Edward Hopper Copy Share Image
When I don't feel in the mood for painting I go to the movies for a week or more. I go on… — Edward Hopper Copy Share Image
The trend in some of the contemporary movements in art, but by no means all, seems to deny this ideal and to… — Edward Hopper Copy Share Image
Painting will have to deal more fully and less obliquely with life and nature's phenomena before it can again become great. — Edward Hopper Copy Share Image
My aim in painting has always been the most exact transcription possible of my most intimate impression of nature. — Edward Hopper Copy Share Image
It's to paint directly on the canvas without any funny business, as it were, and I use almost pure turpentine to start… — Edward Hopper Copy Share Image
It's (the lack of communication between the people in his paintings, ed.) probably a reflection of my own, if I may say,… — Edward Hopper Copy Share Image
One of the weaknesses of much abstract painting is the attempt to substitute the inventions of the intellect for a pristine imaginative… — Edward Hopper Copy Share Image
The idea (for the painting 'Room in New York', 1932, ed.) had been in my mind a long time before I painted… — Edward Hopper Copy Share Image
I find in working always the disturbing intrusion of elements not a part of my most interested vision, and the inevitable obliteration and replacement… — Edward Hopper Copy Share Image
There is a sort of elation about sunlight on the upper part of a house. — Edward Hopper Copy Share Image
No amount of skillful invention can replace the essential element of imagination. — Edward Hopper Copy Share Image
My aim in painting has always been the most exact transcription possible of my most intimate impression of nature. — Edward Hopper Copy Share Image
The only quality that endures in art is a personal vision of the world. Methods are transient: personality is enduring. — Edward Hopper Copy Share Image
Yes, linseed oil. I used to use poppy oil, but I have heard that poppy oil is given to cracking pigment too, so I… — Edward Hopper Copy Share Image
I use a retouching varnish which is made in France, Libert, and that's all the varnish I use. — Edward Hopper Copy Share Image
The trend in some of the contemporary movements in art, but by no means all, seems to deny this ideal and to me appears… — Edward Hopper Copy Share Image
The question of the value of nationality in art is perhaps unsolvable. — Edward Hopper Copy Share Image
