All Edward Hopper Quotes
No amount of skillful invention can replace the essential element of imagination.
Edward Hopper
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If I had the energy, I would have done it all over the county.
Edward Hopper
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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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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
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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
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There is a sort of elation about sunlight on the upper part of a house.
Edward Hopper
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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
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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
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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
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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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Maybe I am not very human - what I wanted to do was to paint sunlight on the side of a house.
Edward Hopper
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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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I think that zinc white has a property of scaling and cracking.
Edward Hopper
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