Edward Hopper Quotes and Sayings - Page 1
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“If you could say it in words there would be no reason to paint.”
-- Edward HopperSource : Ray Spangenburg, Kit Moser, Edward Hopper, Diane Moser (2002). “Edward Hopper: The Life of an Artist”, Enslow Pub Incorporated
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“No amount of skillful invention can replace the essential element of imagination.”
-- Edward HopperSource : Edward Hopper, Hayward Gallery, Whitney Museum of American Art (1981). “Edward Hopper, 1882-1967: Hayward Gallery, London, 11 February to 29 March 1981 : a selection from the exhibition Edward Hopper, the art and the artist held at the Whitney Museum of American Art in New York from 16 September 1980 to 25 January 1981”
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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 HopperSource : Edward Hopper, Hayward Gallery, Whitney Museum of American Art (1981). “Edward Hopper, 1882-1967: Hayward Gallery, London, 11 February to 29 March 1981 : a selection from the exhibition Edward Hopper, the art and the artist held at the Whitney Museum of American Art in New York from 16 September 1980 to 25 January 1981”
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“So many people say painting is fun. I don't find it fun at all. It's hard work for me.”
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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 HopperSource : Quoted in Anatole Broyard Aroused by Books (1974).
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“What I wanted to do was to paint sunlight on the side of a house.”
-- Edward HopperSource : Carl Little, Edward Hopper (1993). “Edward Hopper's New England”, p.8, Pomegranate
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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 HopperSource : "Oral history interview with Edward Hopper". Interview with John Morse, www.aaa.si.edu. June 17, 1959.
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“I find linseed oil and white lead the most satisfactory mediums.”
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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.”
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“There is a sort of elation about sunlight on the upper part of a house.”
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“When I don't feel in the mood for painting I go to the movies for a week or more. I go on a regular movie binge!”
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“In its most limited sense, modern, art would seem to concern itself only with the technical innovations of the period.”
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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.”
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“I have tried to present my sensations in what is the most congenial and impressive form possible to me.”
-- Edward HopperSource : Ita G. Berkow, Edward Hopper (1996). “Edward Hopper: An American Master”, Smithmark Publishers
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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.”
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“I trust Winsor and Newton and I paint directly upon it.”
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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.”
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“My aim in painting has always been the most exact transcription possible of my most intimate impression of nature.”
-- Edward HopperSource : Edward Hopper, Hayward Gallery, Whitney Museum of American Art (1981). “Edward Hopper, 1882-1967: Hayward Gallery, London, 11 February to 29 March 1981 : a selection from the exhibition Edward Hopper, the art and the artist held at the Whitney Museum of American Art in New York from 16 September 1980 to 25 January 1981”
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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.”
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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.”
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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.”
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“If I had the energy, I would have done it all over the county.”
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“Well, I have a very simple method of painting.”
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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 HopperSource : "Oral history interview with Edward Hopper". Interview with John Morse, www.aaa.si.edu. June 17, 1959.
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“I use a retouching varnish which is made in France, Libert, and that's all the varnish I use.”
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“To me the most important thing is the sense of going on. You know how beautiful things are when you're traveling.”
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“It's (the lack of communication between the people in his paintings, ed.) probably a reflection of my own, if I may say, loneliness. I don't know. It could be the whole human condition.”
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“The only quality that endures in art is a personal vision of the world. Methods are transient: personality is enduring.”
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“So much of every art is an expression of the subconscious that it seems to me most of all the important qualities are put there unconsciously, and little of importance by the conscious intellect. But these are things for the psychologist to untangle.”
-- Edward HopperSource : "Edward Hopper". Book by Lloyd Goodrich, p. 164, 1971.
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