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
Edward Hopper quotes about
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.
artist form impressive
I have tried to present my sensations in what is the most congenial and impressive form possible to me.
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.
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.
More of me comes out when I improvise.
art innovation modern
In its most limited sense, modern, art would seem to concern itself only with the technical innovations of the period.
thinking white zinc
I think that zinc white has a property of scaling and cracking.
needs restoring ifs
If the picture needs varnishing later, I allow a restorer to do that, if there's any restoring necessary.
beautiful important know-how
To me the most important thing is the sense of going on. You know how beautiful things are when you're traveling.
goes-on painting mood
When I don't feel in the mood for painting I go to the movies for a week or more. I go on a regular movie binge!
loneliness communication reflection
It's (the lack of communication between the people in his paintings, ed.) probably a reflection of my own, if I may say, loneliness. I don't know. It could be the whole human condition.
art art-is nationality
The question of the value of nationality in art is perhaps unsolvable.
light house want
I guess I'm not very human. All I really want to do is paint light on the side of a house.