Quotes by Edward Hopper

About Edward Hopper:

Edward Hopper was a prominent American realist painter and printmaker. While he was most popularly known for his oil paintings, he was equally proficient as a watercolorist and printmaker in etching. Both in his urban and rural scenes, his spare and finely calculated renderings reflected his personal vision of modern American life.
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I find linseed oil and white lead the most satisfactory mediums.

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

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.

Edward Hopper

The only real influence I've ever had is myself.

Edward Hopper

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

Edward Hopper

My aim in painting has always been the most exact transcription possible of my most intimate impression of nature.

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.

Edward Hopper

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 reactio...

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.

Edward Hopper

Author Bio

  • NameEdward Hopper
  • Descriptionprominent American realist painter and printmaker
  • BornJuly 22, 1882
  • DiedMay 15, 1967
  • CountryUnited States Of America
  • ProfessionPainter
  • WorksHouse By A Road