Edward Hopper Quotes about Art

Edward Hopper is a famous American painter, printmaker and watercolorist associated with the American Realism art movement. He is best known for his depictions of modern American life. Famous Edward Hopper artworks include “Nighthawks”, “Girl at Sewing Machine”, “House by the Railroad”, “Automat”, “Chop Suey”, “Office at Night”, “Room in New York”, “Night Windows” and “Early Sunday Morning”.

Mini biography: Born Edward Hopper on the 22nd of July, 1882 in Nyack, New York, United States of America. His mother was Elizabeth Griffiths Smith and his father Garret Henry Hopper was dry goods merchant. Hopper married the artist Josephine Nivison in 1924. The artist died on the 15th of May, 1967 in Manhattan, New York City, USA at the age of 84. Edward Hopper is buried alongside his wife at the Oak Hill Cemetery, Nyack, New York, United States.

List of Famous Edward Hopper Art Quotes

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 Hopper

Originality is neither a matter of inventiveness nor method, it is the essence of personality. Edward Hopper

The whole answer is there on the canvas. Edward Hopper

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

The only quality that endures in art is a personal vision of the world. Methods are transient: personality is enduring. Edward Hopper

There may come, or perhaps has come, a time when no further progress in truthful representation is possible. There are those who say that such a point has been reached, an attempt to substitute a more and more simplified and decorative calligraphy. This direction is sterile and without hope to those who wish to give painting a richer and more human meaning and a wider scope. No one can correctly forecast the direction that painting will take in the next few years, but to me at least there seems to be a revulsion against the invention of arbitrary and stylized design. Edward Hopper

All I ever wanted to do is to paint sunlight on the side of a wall. Edward Hopper

They are in a high key, somewhat like impressionism or a modified impressionism. I think I’m still an impressionist. 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. I find any digression from this large aim leads me to boredom. Edward Hopper

I have a very simple method of painting. 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. It’s very simple. Edward Hopper

In every work of genius we recognize our own rejected thoughts; they come back to us with a certain alienated majesty. Edward Hopper

The domination of France in the plastic arts has been almost complete for the last thirty years or more in this country. If an apprenticeship to a master has been necessary, I think we have served it. Any further relation of such a character can only mean humiliation to us. 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

Edward Hopper Self-Portrait Painting

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