Quotes by Edward Hopper

Edward Hopper

Everyone goes to the ‘Grands-Boulevards’ (in Paris, ed.) and let himself loose… …Do not picture these in costume, they are not for the most part… …perhaps a clown with a big nose, or two girls with bare necks and short skirts… …the parade of the queens of the halls (markets) is also one of the events… …Some are pretty but look awkward in their silk dresses and crowns, particularly as the broad sun displays their defects – perhaps a neck too thin or a painted face which shows ghastley white in the sunlight.

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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.

Art

Expression

Vision

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.

Elements

Replacements

Vision

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

Artist

Oil

White

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

Artist

Form

Impressive

I once got a little camera to use for details of architecture and so forth but the photo was always so different from the perspective the eye gives, I gave it up.

Eye

Giving

Perspective

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

Newton

Paint

Trust

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

Artist

Needs

Restoring

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

Art

Character

People

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

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Innovation

Modern

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Quotes by Edward Hopper

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.

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.

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

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

I once got a little camera to use for details of architecture and so forth but the photo was always so different from the perspective the eye gives, I gave it up.

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

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

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

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

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