List of Edward Hopper Quotes

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Edward Hopper
Total Quotes 40
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.
Girl Queens Two
I use a retouching varnish which is made in france, libert, and that's all the varnish i use.
Artist Use France
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.
Artist Expression Innovation
I trust winsor and newton and i paint directly upon it.
Trust Newton Paint
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.
Artist Oil Use
I think that zinc white has a property of scaling and cracking.
Thinking Zinc White
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.
Art Mean Ethos
In its most limited sense, modern, art would seem to concern itself only with the technical innovations of the period.
Art Innovation Modern
Painting will have to deal more fully and less obliquely with life and nature's phenomena before it can again become great.
Painting Deals
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.
Vision Elements Replacements
I find linseed oil and white lead the most satisfactory mediums.
Artist Oil White
If i had the energy, i would have done it all over the county.
Energy Done County
  • Born: July 22, 1882
  • Died: May 15, 1967
  • Occupation: Painter
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