55 Quotes by Edward Hopper

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.

More of me comes out when I improvise.

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

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

The only real influence I've ever had is myself.

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

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.

What I wanted to do was to paint sunlight on the side of a house.

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