Edward Hopper
Edward Hopper
Edward Hopperwas a prominent American realist painter and printmaker. While he was most popularly known for his oil paintings, he was equally proficient as a watercolorist and printmaker in etching. Both in his urban and rural scenes, his spare and finely calculated renderings reflected his personal vision of modern American life...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionPainter
Date of Birth22 July 1882
CountryUnited States of America
american-artist human maybe side
Maybe I am not very human - what I wanted to do was to paint sunlight on the side of a house.
artist use france
I use a retouching varnish which is made in France, Libert, and that's all the varnish I use.
artist oil use
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 form impressive
I have tried to present my sensations in what is the most congenial and impressive form possible to me.
artist expression innovation
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.
humility artist thinking
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.
artist painting intimate
My aim in painting has always been the most exact transcription possible of my most intimate impression of nature.
artist cities bigs
Well, I've always been interested in approaching a big city in a train, and I can't exactly describe the sensations, but they're entirely human and perhaps have nothing to do with aesthetics.
artist oil white
I find linseed oil and white lead the most satisfactory mediums.
american-artist direction hope human meaning painting richer sterile wider wish
This direction is sterile and without hope to those who wish to give painting a richer and more human meaning and a wider scope.
energy done county
If I had the energy, I would have done it all over the county.
art innovation modern
In its most limited sense, modern, art would seem to concern itself only with the technical innovations of the period.
vision elements replacements
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.
art mean ethos
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.