Top 29 Quotes by 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.

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.

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

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.

Painting will have to deal more fully and less obliquely with life and nature's phenomena before it can again become great.

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.

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

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

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

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