Edward Hopper

"It takes a long time for an idea to strike."

"Partly through choice, I was never willing to hire out more than three days a week I kept some time to do my own work. Illustrating was a depressing experience. And I didn't get very good prices becau…"

"So much of every art is an expression of the subconscious that it seems to me most of all the important qualities are put there unconsciously, and little of importance by the conscious intellect. But …"

"There will be, I think, an attempt to grasp again the surprise and accidents of nature and a more intimate and sympathetic study of its moods, together with a renewed wonder and humility on the part o…"

"'Oral history interview with Edward Hopper', 1959 June 17, Archives of American Art, Smithsonian Institution, interviewer John Morse."

"The idea had been in my mind a long time before I painted it. It was suggested by glimpses of lighted interiors seen as I walked along city streets at night, probably near the district where I live al…"

"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.. .The inner life of a human being is a vast and varied realm."

"Well, I have a very simple method of painting. 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 unt…"