Edward Hopper Quotes
- So many people say painting is fun. I don't find it fun at all. It's hard work for me.
- I think that zinc white has a property of scaling and cracking.
- If the picture needs varnishing later, I allow a restorer to do that, if there's any restoring necessary.
- The only real influence I've ever had was myself.
- The question of the value of nationality in art is perhaps unsolvable.
- I guess I'm not very human. All I really want to do is paint light on the side of a house.
- 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…
- 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…
- If you could say it in words there would be no reason to paint.
- More of me comes out when I improvise.
- 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…
- What I wanted to do was to paint sunlight on the side of a house.
- No amount of skillful invention can replace the essential element of imagination.
- I have tried to present my sensations in what is the most congenial and impressive form possible to me.
- In general it can be said that a nation's art is greatest when it most reflects the character of its people.
- I trust Winsor and Newton and I paint directly upon it.
- My aim in painting has always been the most exact transcription possible of my most intimate impression of nature.
- I find linseed oil and white lead the most satisfactory mediums.
- I use a retouching varnish which is made in France, Libert, and that's all the varnish I use.
- If I had the energy, I would have done it all over the county.