All Edward Hopper Quotes
- In its most limited sense, modern, art would seem to concern itself only with the technical innovations of the period. Art
- Painting will have to deal more fully and less obliquely with life and nature's phenomena before it can again become great. Become Great
- There is a sort of elation about sunlight on the upper part of a house. Elation
- Well, I have a very simple method of painting. Method
- 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… All
- 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… Attempted
- 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… Accurate
- 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… Disturbing
- 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… Adding
- 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… All
- 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… Accidents
- 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… Aesthetic
- Maybe I am not very human - what I wanted to do was to paint sunlight on the side of a house. House
- If I could say it in words there would be no reason to paint. Art