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 creative would-be
If you could say it in words there would be no reason to paint.
artist use france
I use a retouching varnish which is made in France, Libert, and that's all the varnish I use.
art innovation modern
In its most limited sense, modern, art would seem to concern itself only with the technical innovations of the period.
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.
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 form impressive
I have tried to present my sensations in what is the most congenial and impressive form possible to me.
art expression important
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.
art art-is nationality
The question of the value of nationality in art is perhaps unsolvable.
art color design
One of the weaknesses of much abstract painting is the attempt to substitute the inventions of the intellect for a pristine imaginative conception. The inner life of a human being is a vast and varied realm and does not concern itself alone with stimulating arrangements of color, form and design. The term 'life' as used in art is something not to be held in contempt, for it applies all of its existence, and the province of art is to react to it and not to shun it. Painting will have to deal more fully and less obliquely with life and nature's phenomena before it can again be great.
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.
art personality vision
The only quality that endures in art is a personal vision of the world. Methods are transient: personality is enduring.
humility artist thinking
There will be, I think, an attempt to grasp again the surprise and accidents of nature and a more intimate and sympathetic study of its moods, together with a renewed wonder and humility on the part of such as are still capable of these basic reactions.
artist painting intimate
My aim in painting has always been the most exact transcription possible of my most intimate impression of nature.
artist cities bigs
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.