Quotes for All
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 … Read more
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. Edward Hopper
I trust Winsor and Newton and I paint directly upon it. Edward Hopper
I use a retouching varnish which is made in France, Libert, and that’s all the varnish I use. Edward Hopper
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. Edward Hopper
I think that zinc white has a property of scaling and cracking. Edward Hopper
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. Edward Hopper
In its most limited sense, modern, art would seem to concern itself only with the technical innovations of the period. Edward Hopper
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. Edward Hopper
Painting will have to deal more fully and less obliquely with life and nature’s phenomena before it can again become great. Edward Hopper