Edward Hopper Quotes

• A nation’s art is greatest when it most reflects the character of its people.

  Edward Hopper

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• It’s probably a reflection of my own, if I may say, loneliness. I don’t know. It could be the whole human condition.

  Edward Hopper

  Topics in Uncategorized

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

  Edward Hopper

  Topics in Art

  Tags in Essential, Imagination

• More of me comes out when I improvise.

  Edward Hopper

  Topics in Art

  Tags in Self, Improvise

• If you could say it in words there would be no reason to paint.

  Edward Hopper

  Topics in Art

  Tags in Words, Reason

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

  Edward Hopper

  Topics in Country

  Tags in Energy

• 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

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  Tags in Sympathetic, Study, Moods, Humility

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

  Edward Hopper

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  Tags in Self, Sensations

• 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

  Topics in Vision

  Tags in Replacement, Working

• 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

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Ourselves, Character

• 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

  Topics in Art, Life

  Tags in Artist

• 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

  Topics in Emotion

  Tags in Great, Painters

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

  Edward Hopper

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  Tags in Satisfactory, Medium

• 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

  Topics in Business, Funny

  Tags in Canvas, Paint

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

  Edward Hopper

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  Tags in Scaling, Property

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

  Edward Hopper

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  Tags in Self, Varnish, Use

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

  Edward Hopper

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  Tags in Self, Restorer, Allow

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

  Edward Hopper

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  Tags in Self, Trusted, Manufacturers

• 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

  Topics in Nature

  Tags in Technical, Innovations

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

  Edward Hopper

  Topics in Art

  Tags in Nation, Greatest

Edward Hopper (31)

Birth:	22nd July, 1882
Death:	15th May, 1967
Nationality:	American
Profession:	Painter

About

Edward Hopper was born in Upper Nyack, New York. He was an American painter. While he was most popularly known for his oil paintings, he was equally proficient as a watercolorist and printmaker in etching. His famous works include House by the Railroad, Automat and the iconic Nighthawks. In 1895, he created his first signed oil painting, Rowboat in Rocky Cove. In 1913, at the famous Armory Show, Hopper sold his first painting, Sailing, which he painted over an earlier self-portrait.

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