I believe that the great painters, with their intellect as master, have attempted to force the unwilling medium of paint and canvas into a record of their emotions. I find any digression from this large aim leads me to boredom.
- Edward Hopper Quote

I find linseed oil and white lead the most satisfactory mediums.
- Edward Hopper Quote

I have tried to present my sensations in what is the most congenial and impressive form possible to me.
- Edward Hopper Quote

I use a retouching varnish which is made in France, Libert, and that's all the varnish I use.
- Edward Hopper Quote

If the picture needs varnishing later, I allow a restorer to do that, if there's any restoring necessary.
- Edward Hopper Quote

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 Quote

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

In its most limited sense, modern, art would seem to concern itself only with the technical innovations of the period.
- Edward Hopper Quote

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 Quote

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

The only real influence I've ever had was myself.
- Edward Hopper Quote

The question of the value of nationality in art is perhaps unsolvable.
- Edward Hopper Quote

There will be, I think, an attempt to grasp again the surprise and accidents of nature and a more intimate and sympathetic study of its moods, together with a renewed wonder and humility on the part of such as are still capable of these basic reactions.
- Edward Hopper Quote

Well, I've always been interested in approaching a big city in a train, and I can't exactly describe the sensations, but they're entirely human and perhaps have nothing to do with aesthetics.
- Edward Hopper Quote