My aim in painting has always been the most exact transcription possible of my most intimate impression of nature. – Edward Hopper
No amount of skillful invention can replace the essential element of imagination. – Edward Hopper

My aim in painting has always been the most exact transcription possible of my most intimate impression of nature. – Edward Hopper
No amount of skillful invention can replace the essential element of imagination. – Edward Hopper
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. – Edward Hopper
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 of such as are still capable of these basic reactions. – Edward Hopper
Each of us has a very rich nature and can look at things objectively, from a distance, and at the same time can have something more personal to say about them. I am trying to look at the world, and at myself, from many different points of view. I think many poets have this duality. – Wislawa Szymborska