Edward Hopper Quotes

Edward Hopper

American Artist

Born: Jul 22, 1882

Died: May 15, 1967

Art House Me Nature Paint Painting

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What I wanted to do was to paint sunlight on the side of a house. Edward Hopper

Art Side Sunlight House Wanted Paint

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

Made France Which Use

My aim in painting has always been the most exact transcription possible of my most intimate impression of nature. Edward Hopper

Nature Painting Aim Intimate Possible Exact Most Always Been Impression

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

Work Vision Inevitable Find Intrusion Disturbing Part Most Always Itself Replacement Proceeds Interested Working Elements

More of me comes out when I improvise. Edward Hopper

Me Improvise Out More

There will be, I think, an attempt to grasp again the surprise and accidents of nature and a more intimate and sympathetic study of its moods, together with a renewed wonder and humility on the part of such as are still capable of these basic reactions. Edward Hopper

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

White Mediums Find Lead Most Oil Satisfactory

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

Property White Think Scaling Cracking

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

Nature Value Innovations More Merely Perhaps Powers Led Impressionist Accurate Representation Much Expression Technical Enlarging

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

There is a sort of elation about sunlight on the upper part of a house. Edward Hopper

Sunlight About Part House Sort Upper Elation

Well, I have a very simple method of painting. Edward Hopper

Simple Painting Well Method Very

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