Edward Hopper Quotes - Page 2

• 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.

  Edward Hopper

  Character, Trying, Inheritance

  "Entrevista de historia oral con Edward Hopper". Entrevista con John Morse, www.aaa.si.edu. 17 de junio de 1959.

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• La cuestión del valor de la nacionalidad en el arte es quizás irresoluble.

  Edward Hopper

  Arte, Nacionalidad, Valores

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• If I had the energy, I would have done it all over the county.

  Edward Hopper

  Energy, Done, County

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• I believe that the great painters with their intellect as master have attempted to force this unwilling medium of paint and canvas into a record of their emotions.

  Edward Hopper

  Believe, Records, Emotion

  Edward Hopper, Adam D. Weinberg, Richard R. Brettell, Whitney Museum of American Art (1993). “Hopper in Paris: June 23-September 19, 1993, collection in context”

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• If the picture needs varnishing later, I allow a restorer to do that, if there's any restoring necessary.

  Edward Hopper

  Artist, Needs, Restoring

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• Painting will have to deal more fully and less obliquely with life and nature's phenomena before it can again become great.

  Edward Hopper

  Painting, Deals

  Edward Hopper, Galería Hayward, Museo Whitney de Arte Americano (1981). "Edward Hopper, 1882-1967: Hayward Gallery, Londres, del 11 de febrero al 29 de marzo de 1981 : una selección de la exposición Edward Hopper, el arte y el artista celebrada en el Whitney Museum of American Art de New York del 16 de septiembre de 1980 al 25 de enero de 1981"

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• En su sentido más limitado, el arte moderno parecería ocuparse únicamente de las innovaciones técnicas de la época.

  Edward Hopper

  Art, Innovation, Modern

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• I find linseed oil and white lead the most satisfactory mediums.

  Edward Hopper

  Artist, Oil, White

  "Entrevista de historia oral con Edward Hopper". Entrevista con John Morse, www.aaa.si.edu. 17 de junio de 1959.

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• 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

  Artist, Expression, Innovation

  "Entrevista de historia oral con Edward Hopper". Entrevista con John Morse, www.aaa.si.edu. 17 de junio de 1959.

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• 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

  Art, Mean, Ethos

  "Entrevista de historia oral con Edward Hopper". Entrevista con John Morse, www.aaa.si.edu. 17 de junio de 1959.

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• I think that zinc white has a property of scaling and cracking.

  Edward Hopper

  Thinking, Zinc, White

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• 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

  Artist, Oil, Use

  "Oral history interview with Edward Hopper". Interview with John Morse, www.aaa.si.edu. June 17, 1959..

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• I trust Winsor and Newton and I paint directly upon it.

  Edward Hopper

  Trust, Newton, Paint

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• 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.

  Edward Hopper

  Girl, Queens, Two

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• I use a retouching varnish which is made in France, Libert, and that's all the varnish I use.

  Edward Hopper

  Artist, Use, France

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