Authors:

Edward Hopper Quotes about Painting

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

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

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”

Well, I have a very simple method of painting.

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

Painting will have to deal more fully and less obliquely with life and nature's phenomena before it can again become great.

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”