#d

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

— Edward Hopper

#no reason #paint #reason #say #words

Maybe I am not very human - what I wanted to do was to paint sunlight on the side of a house. ↗

— Edward Hopper

#house #human #i #i am #maybe

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

#artist #expression #great #great art #his

While seeking revenge, dig two graves - one for yourself. ↗

— Douglas Horton

#graves #revenge #seeking #two #while

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

#believe #canvas #emotions #force #great

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

#any #attempt #character #deny #french

Good sense is both the first principal and the parent source of good writing. ↗

— Horace

#first #good #good sense #good writing #parent

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

#disturbing #elements #find #i #inevitable

I find linseed oil and white lead the most satisfactory mediums. ↗

— Edward Hopper

#i #lead #mediums #most #oil

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

— Edward Hopper

#concern #innovations #itself #limited #modern