Quote #2

I think a great deal of contemporary painting doesn't have that element(decaying from your original idea) in it at all.It is all cerebral invention.Inventions not conceived in the imagination at all...contemporary painting is false..it has no intimacy.

More from Edward Hopper

  1. In every artist's development the germ of a later work is always found in the earlier.
  2. To me form,color and design are merely a means to an end....I am interested primarily in the vast field of experience and sensation.
  3. Invention...is the essence of personality.
  4. ...all the sweltering, tawdry life of the American small town, and behind all, the sad desolation of our suburban landscape.
  5. I can't always agree with what critics say - it may be true; it may not be true.
  6. I can't exactly describe the sensations, but they're entirely human and perhaps have nothing to do with aesthetics.
  7. Whom did I meet? Nobody. I'd heard of Gertrude Stein, but I don't remember having heard of Picasso at all. I used to go to the cafes at nig…
  8. Maybe I am slightly inhuman ... all I ever wanted to do was to paint sunlight on the side of a house.

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