Edward Hopper
Edward Hopper
Edward Hopperwas 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...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionPainter
Date of Birth22 July 1882
CountryUnited States of America
art personality vision
The only quality that endures in art is a personal vision of the world. Methods are transient: personality is enduring.
thinking white zinc
I think that zinc white has a property of scaling and cracking.
art mean ethos
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.
artist oil use
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.
vision elements replacements
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.
artist expression innovation
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.
character trying inheritance
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.
trust newton paint
I trust Winsor and Newton and I paint directly upon it.
artist use france
I use a retouching varnish which is made in France, Libert, and that's all the varnish I use.
energy done county
If I had the energy, I would have done it all over the county.
art innovation modern
In its most limited sense, modern, art would seem to concern itself only with the technical innovations of the period.
painting deals
Painting will have to deal more fully and less obliquely with life and nature's phenomena before it can again become great.
simple painting method
Well, I have a very simple method of painting.
artist form impressive
I have tried to present my sensations in what is the most congenial and impressive form possible to me.