I guess I’m not very human. All I really want to do is paint light on the side of a house. — Edward Hopper
So many people say painting is fun. I don’t find it fun at all. It’s hard work for me. — Edward Hopper
After all, we are not french and never can be, and any attempt to be so is to deny our inheritance and — Edward Hopper
Great art is the outward expression of an inner life in the artist, and this inner life will — Edward Hopper
I use a retouching varnish which is made in france, libert, and that’s all the varnish I use. — Edward Hopper
In its most limited sense, modern, art would seem to concern itself only with the technical innovations of the period. — Edward Hopper
It’s to paint directly on the canvas without any funny business, as it were, and I use almost pure turpentine — Edward Hopper
I believe that the great painters with their intellect as master have attempted to force this unwilling — Edward Hopper
I find in working always the disturbing intrusion of elements not a part of my most interested vision — Edward Hopper
I have tried to present my sensations in what is the most congenial and impressive form possible to me. — Edward Hopper
If the technical innovations of the impressionists led merely to a more accurate representation of nature — Edward Hopper
Maybe I am not very human – what I wanted to do was to paint sunlight on the side of a house. — Edward Hopper
My aim in painting has always been the most exact transcription possible of my most intimate impression of nature. — 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