To me the most important thing is the sense of going on. You know how beautiful things are when you're traveling. Edward Hopper More Quotes by Edward Hopper More Quotes From Edward Hopper If the picture needs varnishing later, I allow a restorer to do that, if there's any restoring necessary. Edward Hopper restoring artist needs 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 important expression art 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. Edward Hopper records emotion believe After all, we are not French and never can be, and any attempt to be so is to deny our inheritance and to try to impose upon ourselves a character that can be nothing but a veneer upon the surface. Edward Hopper inheritance trying character What I wanted to do was to paint sunlight on the side of a house. Edward Hopper sunlight house sides Well, I have a very simple method of painting. Edward Hopper method painting simple I think that zinc white has a property of scaling and cracking. Edward Hopper zinc white thinking 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. Edward Hopper oil artist use I find linseed oil and white lead the most satisfactory mediums. Edward Hopper oil artist white I use a retouching varnish which is made in France, Libert, and that's all the varnish I use. Edward Hopper france artist use If I had the energy, I would have done it all over the county. Edward Hopper county energy done When I don't feel in the mood for painting I go to the movies for a week or more. I go on a regular movie binge! Edward Hopper painting week goes-on Painting will have to deal more fully and less obliquely with life and nature's phenomena before it can again become great. Edward Hopper deals painting 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. Edward Hopper innovation artist expression 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 replacements elements vision I trust Winsor and Newton and I paint directly upon it. Edward Hopper newton trust paint In its most limited sense, modern, art would seem to concern itself only with the technical innovations of the period. Edward Hopper modern innovation art Everyone goes to the 'Grands-Boulevards' (in Paris, ed.) and let himself loose... ...Do not picture these in costume, they are not for the most part... ...perhaps a clown with a big nose, or two girls with bare necks and short skirts... ...the parade of the queens of the halls (markets) is also one of the events... ...Some are pretty but look awkward in their silk dresses and crowns, particularly as the broad sun displays their defects - perhaps a neck too thin or a painted face which shows ghastley white in the sunlight. Edward Hopper queens girl two 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 ethos mean art Maybe I am not very human - what I wanted to do was to paint sunlight on the side of a house. Edward Hopper human i-am sunlight house
