55 Quotes by Edward Hopper

There is a sort of elation about sunlight on the upper part of a house.

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

I trust Winsor and Newton and I paint directly upon it.

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

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.

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.

Well, I have a very simple method of painting.

If I had the energy, I would have done it all over the county.

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