All Edward Hopper Quotes
If you could say it in words there would be no reason to paint.
Edward Hopper
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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
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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
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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
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In general it can be said that a nation's art is greatest when it most reflects the character of its people.
Edward Hopper
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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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I find linseed oil and white lead the most satisfactory mediums.
Edward Hopper
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In its most limited sense, modern, art would seem to concern itself only with the technical innovations of the period.
Edward Hopper
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My aim in painting has always been the most exact transcription possible of my most intimate impression of nature.
Edward Hopper
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Painting will have to deal more fully and less obliquely with life and nature's phenomena before it can again become great.
Edward Hopper
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What I wanted to do was to paint sunlight on the side of a house.
Edward Hopper
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There is a sort of elation about sunlight on the upper part of a house.
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