Quote #4
Invention...is the essence of personality.
More from Edward Hopper
- ...all the sweltering, tawdry life of the American small town, and behind all, the sad desolation of our suburban landscape.
- 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.
- I can't always agree with what critics say - it may be true; it may not be true.
- 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 i…
- I can't exactly describe the sensations, but they're entirely human and perhaps have nothing to do with aesthetics.
- In every artist's development the germ of a later work is always found in the earlier.
- 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…
- Maybe I am slightly inhuman ... all I ever wanted to do was to paint sunlight on the side of a house.