“ I think that zinc white has a property of scaling and cracking. ”
- Edward Hopper- Copy
- 150
“ This direction is sterile and without hope to those who wish to give painting a richer and more human meaning and a wider scope. ”
- Edward Hopper- Copy
- 2.3K
“ 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- Copy
- 1.2K
“ If the picture needs varnishing later, I allow a restorer to do that, if there's any restoring necessary. ”
- Edward Hopper- Copy
- 230
“ I use a retouching varnish which is made in France, Libert, and that's all the varnish I use. ”
- Edward Hopper- Copy
- 1.2K
“ 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- Copy
- 125
“ If you could say it in words there would be no reason to paint. ”
- Edward Hopper- Copy
- 1.9K
“ I use a retouching varnish which is made in France, Libert, and that's all the varnish I use. ”
- Edward Hopper- Copy
- 1.5K
“ I use a retouching varnish which is made in France, Libert, and that's all the varnish I use. ”
- Edward Hopper- Copy
- 3.6K
“ 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- Copy
- 434
“ Painting will have to deal more fully and less obliquely with life and nature's phenomena before it can again become great. ”
- Edward Hopper- Copy
- 1.4K
“ My aim in painting has always been the most exact transcription possible of my most intimate impression of nature. ”
- Edward Hopper- Copy
- 3.8K
“ I have tried to present my sensations in what is the most congenial and impressive form possible to me. ”
- Edward Hopper- Copy
- 3.1K
“ 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- Copy
- 2.8K
“ 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 Hopper- Copy
- 3K
“ 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- Copy
- 1.4K
“ 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- Copy
- 2.9K
“ In its most limited sense, modern, art would seem to concern itself only with the technical innovations of the period. ”
- Edward Hopper- Copy
- 2.2K
“ One of the weaknesses of much abstract painting is the attempt to substitute the inventions of the intellect for a pristine imaginative conception. ”
- Edward Hopper- Copy
- 203
“ The question of the value of nationality in art is perhaps unsolvable. ”
- Edward Hopper- Copy
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