3 December 2020 Edward Hopper 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.
3 December 2020 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.
3 December 2020 Edward Hopper Painting will have to deal more fully and less obliquely with life and nature’s phenomena before it can again become great.
3 December 2020 Edward Hopper In general it can be said that a nation’s art is greatest when it most reflects the character of its people.
3 December 2020 Edward Hopper My aim in painting has always been the most exact transcription possible of my most intimate impression of nature.
3 December 2020 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.
3 December 2020 Edward Hopper 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.
3 December 2020 Edward Hopper No amount of skillful invention can replace the essential element of imagination.
3 December 2020 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.
3 December 2020 Edward Hopper In its most limited sense, modern, art would seem to concern itself only with the technical innovations of the period.
