Edward Hopper

I find in working always the disturbing intrusion of elements not a part of my most interested vision, and the inevitable obliteration…

— 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,…

— 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…

— 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

More of me comes out when I improvise.

— Edward Hopper

So much of every art is an expression of the subconscious that it seems to me most of all the important qualities…

— Edward Hopper

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

— Edward Hopper

There will be, I think, an attempt to grasp again the surprise and accidents of nature and a more intimate and sympathetic…

— Edward Hopper

One of the weaknesses of much abstract painting is the attempt to substitute the inventions of the intellect for a pristine imaginative…

— Edward Hopper

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

— Edward Hopper

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

— Edward Hopper

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…

— Edward Hopper

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

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