Edward Hopper Quotes
32 Edward Hopper quotes:
"The question of the value of nationality in art is perhaps unsolvable."
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"If you could say it in words there would be no reason to paint."
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Reason Quotes
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"I find linseed oil and white lead the most satisfactory mediums."
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"If the picture needs varnishing later, I allow a restorer to do that, if there's any restoring necessary."
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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."
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"One of the weaknesses of much abstract painting is the attempt to substitute the inventions of the intellect for a pristine imaginative conception."
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"This direction is sterile and without hope to those who wish to give painting a richer and more human meaning and a wider scope."
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"Yes, linseed oil. I used to use poppy oil, but I have heard that poppy oil is given to cracking pigment too, so I use it no longer."
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"What I wanted to do was to paint sunlight on the side of a house."
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"I trust Winsor and Newton and I paint directly upon it."
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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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"Maybe I am not very human - what I wanted to do was to paint sunlight on the side of a house."
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"My aim in painting has always been the most exact transcription possible of my most intimate impression of nature."
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"If I had the energy, I would have done it all over the county."
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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."
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"More of me comes out when I improvise."
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"No amount of skillful invention can replace the essential element of imagination."
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"The only real influence I've ever had was myself."
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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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"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."
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