Edward Hopper Quotes

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Edward Hopper

Profession : Artist

Birth : July 22, 1882

If I had the energy, I would have done it all over the county.

Edward Hopper

If the picture needs varnishing later, I allow a restorer to do that, if there's any restoring necessary.

Edward Hopper

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 their powers of expression.

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

The question of the value of nationality in art is perhaps unsolvable.

Edward Hopper

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 lead to a purely decorative conception of painting.

Edward Hopper

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 moods, together with a renewed wonder and humility on the part of such as are still capable of these basic reactions.

Edward Hopper

Well, I have a very simple method of painting.

Edward Hopper