Satisfactory Mediums Quotes by Edward Hopper

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

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

— Edward Hopper

There is a sort of elation about sunlight on the upper part of a house.

— Edward Hopper

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

— Edward Hopper

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

— Edward Hopper

The only quality that endures in art is a personal vision of the world. Methods are transient: personality is enduring.

— Edward Hopper

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

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

— Edward Hopper

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

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

— Edward Hopper

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

— Edward Hopper

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

— Edward Hopper

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

— Edward Hopper

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

— Edward Hopper

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

— Edward Hopper