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
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!
artist painting intimate
My aim in painting has always been the most exact transcription possible of my most intimate impression of nature.
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.
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.
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.
new-york night squares
The idea (for the painting 'Room in New York', 1932, ed.) had been in my mind a long time before I painted it. It was suggested by glimpses of lighted interiors seen as I walked along city streets at night, probably near the district where I live (Washington Square, New York, fh) although it's no particular street or house, but is really a synthesis of many impressions.
girl queens two
Everyone goes to the 'Grands-Boulevards' (in Paris, ed.) and let himself loose... ...Do not picture these in costume, they are not for the most part... ...perhaps a clown with a big nose, or two girls with bare necks and short skirts... ...the parade of the queens of the halls (markets) is also one of the events... ...Some are pretty but look awkward in their silk dresses and crowns, particularly as the broad sun displays their defects - perhaps a neck too thin or a painted face which shows ghastley white in the sunlight.
eye giving perspective
I once got a little camera to use for details of architecture and so forth but the photo was always so different from the perspective the eye gives, I gave it up.
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.
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.