Hopper's best pictures are representational only in that simplified, stripped-down, visually dissonant manner that suggests some distant memory, or a dream.... They are simple, yet mysterious; blunt, yet poetic; familiar, yet at the same time inscrutable.

Hopper made a lot of changes - he cleaned things up.

For most Europeans, Edward Hopper's art confirms a preconceived image of America: Hopper's American qualities are in the scenes he chose to paint.

Hopper is simply a bad painter, but if he were a better one, he would probably not be such a great artist.