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 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.
art creative would-be
If you could say it in words there would be no reason to paint.
More of me comes out when I improvise.
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.
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 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.
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.
artist form impressive
I have tried to present my sensations in what is the most congenial and impressive form possible to me.
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!
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.
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.