Edward Hopper Quotes - Page 2

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• The question of the value of nationality in art is perhaps unsolvable.

  Edward Hopper

  Art, Nationality, Values

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• Yes, linseed oil. I used to use poppy oil, but I have heard that poppy oil is given to cracking pigment too, so I use it no longer.

  Edward Hopper

  Oil, Use, Poppies

  'Oral history interview with Edward Hopper' conducted by John Morse, 'Archives of American Art', Smithsonian Institution, June 17, 1959.

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

  Edward Hopper

  Energy, Done, County

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

  Edward Hopper

  Artist, Oil, White

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

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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, Hayward Gallery, Whitney Museum of American Art (1981). “Edward Hopper, 1882-1967: Hayward Gallery, London, 11 February to 29 March 1981 : a selection from the exhibition Edward Hopper, the art and the artist held at the Whitney Museum of American Art in New York from 16 September 1980 to 25 January 1981”

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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

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

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• In its most limited sense, modern, art would seem to concern itself only with the technical innovations of the period.

  Edward Hopper

  Art, Innovation, Modern

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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

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