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Edward Hopper
 
Date of birth: 22 July 1882
Date of death: 15 May 1967
Country Of Origin: America
Profession:

Painter

Biography:
    Edward Hopper (July 22, 1882 – May 15, 1967) was an United States painter best remembered for his eerily realistic depictions of solitude in contemporary American life.
Life

Born in Nyack, New York, New York, Hopper studied commercial art and painting in New York City. One of his teachers, artist Robert Henri, encouraged his students to use their art to "make a stir in the world." Henri, an influence on Hopper, motivated students .... (More...)
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" 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
" 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
" 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
" 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
" 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
" I find linseed oil and white lead the most satisfactory mediums. "

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

Edward Hopper
" I never use a final varnish. "

Edward Hopper
" I think that zinc white has a property of scaling and cracking. "

Edward Hopper
" I trust Winsor and Newton and I paint directly upon it. "

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

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

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

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

Edward Hopper
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