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Edward Hopper Quotes about Art

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

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

Edward Hopper
Art, Creative, Would Be
Ray Spangenburg, Kit Moser, Edward Hopper, Diane Moser (2002). “Edward Hopper: The Life of an Artist”, Enslow Pub Incorporated

Great art is the outward expression of an inner life in the artist, and this inner life will result in his personal vision of the world.

Edward Hopper
Art, Expression, Vision
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”

No amount of skillful invention can replace the essential element of imagination.

Edward Hopper
Art, Aquariums, Imagination
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”

The only quality that endures in art is a personal vision of the world. Methods are transient: personality is enduring.

Edward Hopper
Art, Personality, Vision

In general it can be said that a nation's art is greatest when it most reflects the character of its people.

Edward Hopper
Art, Character, People
Quoted in Anatole Broyard Aroused by Books (1974).

So many people say painting is fun. I don't find it fun at all. It's hard work for me.

Edward Hopper
Art, Fun, Hard Work

One of the weaknesses of much abstract painting is the attempt to substitute the inventions of the intellect for a pristine imaginative conception. The inner life of a human being is a vast and varied realm and does not concern itself alone with stimulating arrangements of color, form and design. The term 'life' as used in art is something not to be held in contempt, for it applies all of its existence, and the province of art is to react to it and not to shun it. Painting will have to deal more fully and less obliquely with life and nature's phenomena before it can again be great.

Edward Hopper
Art, Color, Design

So much of every art is an expression of the subconscious that it seems to me most of all the important qualities are put there unconsciously, and little of importance by the conscious intellect. But these are things for the psychologist to untangle.

Edward Hopper
Art, Expression, Important
"Edward Hopper". Book by Lloyd Goodrich, p. 164, 1971.

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

Edward Hopper
Art, Nationality, Values

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

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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