Top 29 Quotes by Edward Hopper

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.

I find linseed oil and white lead the most satisfactory mediums.

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.

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

In general it can be said that a nation's art is greatest when it most reflects the character of its people.

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

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

I use a retouching varnish which is made in France, Libert, and that's all the varnish I use.

In its most limited sense, modern, art would seem to concern itself only with the technical innovations of the period.

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.