Edward Hopper Quotes

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Edward Hopper

Profession : Artist

Birth : July 22, 1882

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

Edward Hopper

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

Edward Hopper

Maybe I am not very human - what I wanted to do was to paint sunlight on the side of a house.

Edward Hopper

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 world.

Edward Hopper

More of me comes out when I improvise.

Edward Hopper

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

Edward Hopper

I have tried to present my sensations in what is the most congenial and impressive form possible to me.

Edward Hopper

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

Edward Hopper

In general it can be said that a nation's art is greatest when it most reflects the character of its people.

Edward Hopper

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 as I go along until the medium becomes pure oil. I use as little oil as I can possibly help, and that's my method.

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 entirely human and perhaps have nothing to do with aesthetics.

Edward Hopper

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

Edward Hopper

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

Edward Hopper

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

Edward Hopper

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 impose upon ourselves a character that can be nothing but a veneer upon the surface.

Edward Hopper

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 of their emotions.

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 of this vision by the work itself as it proceeds.

Edward Hopper

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

Edward Hopper

I trust Winsor and Newton and I paint directly upon it.

Edward Hopper

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

Edward Hopper