Edward Hopper quotes

Born
July 22, 1882. Upper Nyack, New York, United States.

Died
May 15, 1967.

Occupation
Painter.

Edward Hopper was an American realist painter.

More of me comes out when I improvise.
– Edward Hopper

No amount of skillful invention can replace the essential element of imagination.
– Edward Hopper

If I had the energy, I would have done it all over the county.
– Edward Hopper

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

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

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

What I wanted to do was to paint sunlight on the side of a house.
– Edward Hopper

I trust Winsor and Newton and I paint directly upon it.
– Edward Hopper

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

The question of the value of nationality in art is perhaps unsolvable.
– Edward Hopper

The only real influence I’ve ever had was myself.
– Edward Hopper

I guess I’m not very human. All I really want to do is paint light on the side of a house.
– Edward Hopper

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

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

Well, I have a very simple method of painting.
– Edward Hopper

If you could say it in words there would be no reason to paint.
– 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.
– Edward Hopper

Maybe I am not very human – what I wanted to do was to paint sunlight on the side of a house.
– Edward Hopper

I think that zinc white has a property of scaling and cracking.
– Edward Hopper

Well, I have a very simple method of painting.
– Edward Hopper

There is a sort of elation about sunlight on the upper part of a house.
– Edward Hopper