My aim in painting has always been the most exact transcription possible of my most intimate impression of nature. – Edward Hopper
In its most limited sense, modern, art would seem to concern itself only with the technical innovations of the period. – Edward Hopper
Painting will have to deal more fully and less obliquely with life and natures phenomena before it can again become great. – Edward Hopper
The trend in some of the contemporary movements in art, but by no means all, seems to deny this ideal and to me appears to lead to a purely decorative conception of painting. – Edward Hopper