Edward Hopper Quotes on pain

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

By: Edward Hopper

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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... view

By: Edward Hopper

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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... view

By: Edward Hopper

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Maybe I am not very human - what I wanted to do was to paint sunlight on the side of a house... view

By: Edward Hopper

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Well, I have a very simple method of painting... view

By: Edward Hopper

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

By: Edward Hopper

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I trust Winsor and Newton and I paint directly upon it... view

By: Edward Hopper

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If you could say it in words there would be no reason to paint... view

By: Edward Hopper

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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... view

By: Edward Hopper

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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... view

By: Edward Hopper

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