Art Quote by Edward Hopper Download Open image “So many people say painting is fun. I don't find it fun at all. It's hard work for me.” — Edward Hopper ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 4.7 out of 5 (6 ratings) Copy quoteShare Art Fun Hard Hard work Painting People
Friends often think it must be fun to be a painter... When it's going well, it's far more profound than mere fun; when it's… — Steven Whitney Copy Share Image
Painting is really good fun, I have always enjoyed it. As long as I paint what I want with the freedom that I enjoy,… — John Dyer Copy Share Image
Painting is so difficult that I would give it up if it were not so enjoyable. — William McGregor Paxton Copy Share Image
The most difficult thing about painting is the self-discipline. When I finish a job, I give myself a few days, but then I have… — John Hurt Copy Share Image
Painting is a magical process that I like, where you conjure something out of nothing; you get a little idea that leads you through… — Paul McCartney Copy Share Image
I never worked at painting as if it were a job; it was always out of interest or for fun, a desire to try… — Gerhard Richter Copy Share Image
I have always enjoyed drawing and painting but I don't always find the time to do much these days. — Kirsty Gallacher Copy Share Image
I always wanted to do something creative, but as much as I'm creative, it's in a really hard-core, right-brained way. For me, painting doesn't… — Joshua Prince-Ramus Copy Share Image
Painting is easy when you don't know how, but very difficult when you do. — Edgar Degas Copy Share Image
For those who don't know what they are doing, painting is easy. For those who do know what they are doing, painting is difficult. — Edgar Degas Copy Share Image
I enjoy painting. I don't know if I'm good at it, but I paint. I paint very quickly. — Anthony Hopkins 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
True works of art contain their own theory and give us the measurement according to which we should judge them. — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
Before Noah, men having only water to drink, could not find the truth. Accordingly...they became abominably wicked, and they were justly exterminated by the… — Benjamin Franklin Copy Share Image
“Hear the sum of the whole matter in the compass of one brief word — every art possessed by man comes from Prometheus.” — Aeschylus Copy Share Image
I think most artists feel like they're outside society - no matter how many accolades they receive, or how much money is in your… — Aaron Rose Copy Share Image
The capacity to be puzzled is the premise of all creation, be it in art or in science. — Erich Fromm Copy Share Image
That's the great secret of creativity. You treat ideas like cats: you make them follow you. — Ray Bradbury Copy Share Image
“So, really," continued Jacob as if this were perfectly normal to expound on art in these circumstances, "when you think about it, the artists… — Justina Chen Headley Copy Share Image
“There are two options in art; either to adopt philosophical life by dissecting art, or to write your own philosophical life and claim it… — Taf Teh Copy Share Image
The house has to serve comfort. The work of art is revolutionary; the house is conservative. — Adolf Loos Copy Share Image
During human progress, every science is evolved out of its corresponding art. — Herbert Spencer Copy Share Image
In literature and art memory is a synonym for invention. It is the life-blood of imagination, which faints and dies when the veins are… — Robert Aris Willmott Copy Share Image
I think a business guy is different from an artist. They walk different paths. Artists create the best outputs when they're having fun. And… — G-Dragon Copy Share Image
