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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 -
Though I studied with Robert Henri, I was never a member of the Ash-Can School. You see, it had a sociological trend which didn't interest me. Hopper then proceeded to inform Kuh that his work contained no social content whatsoever!
Edward Hopper
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It's probably a reflection of my own, if I may say, loneliness. I don't know. It could be the whole human condition.
Edward Hopper -
It is hard for me to know what to paint. It comes slowly.
Edward Hopper -
on the question 'Why selecting certain subjects over others': I do not exactly know, unless it is that I believe them his chosen subjects to be the best mediums for a synthesis of my inner experience.
Edward Hopper -
It takes a long time for an idea to strike.
Edward Hopper -
I could just go a few steps from the house where he stayed in Paris in 1906- 1907 and I'd see the Louvre across the river. From the corner of the Rue de Bac and Lille (sic) you could see Sacré-Coeur. It hung like a great vision in the air above the city.
Edward Hopper -
To me the most important thing is the sense of going on. You know how beautiful things are when you're traveling.
Edward Hopper
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The people here in fact seem to live in the streets, which are alive from morning until night, not as they are in New York with that never-ending determination for the 'long-green', but with a pleasure-loving crowd that doesn’t care what it does or where it goes, so that it has a good time.
Edward Hopper -
If this end is unattainable, so, it can be said, is perfection in any other ideal of painting or in any other of man's activities.
Edward Hopper -
I do not know why I chose one subject rather than another unless I believe them to be the best synthesis of my inner experience.
Edward Hopper -
Sloan American colleague artist who started his art by making etchings, c. 1920 not having been abroad in contrary to Hopper himself, has seen these things with a truer and fresher eye than most.. .The hard early training has given to Sloan a facility and a power of invention that the pure painter seldom achieves.
Edward Hopper -
Ninety percent of them artists in general are forgotten ten minutes after they’re dead.
Edward Hopper -
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..
Edward Hopper