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Edward Hopper Painter

  • Gender: Male
  • Citizenship: United States
  • Born: Jul 22, 1882
  • Died: May 15, 1967

Edward Hopper was a prominent American realist painter and printmaker. While he was most popularly known for his oil paintings, he was equally proficient as a watercolorist and printmaker in etching. Both in his urban and rural scenes, his spare and finely calculated renderings reflected his personal vision of modern American life.

In general it can be said that a nation's art is greatest when it most reflects the character of its people. art

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. art

The question of the value of nationality in art is perhaps unsolvable. art

No amount of skillful invention can replace the essential element of imagination. imagination

Painting will have to deal more fully and less obliquely with life and nature's phenomena before it can again become great. nature

In its most limited sense, modern, art would seem to concern itself only with the technical innovations of the period. art

I trust Winsor and Newton and I paint directly upon it. trust

My aim in painting has always been the most exact transcription possible of my most intimate impression of nature. nature