Edward Hopper in artist quotes on painting & life in the U.S. - free resource, American art history

Edward Hopper in quotes - the American artist tells on his characteristic way of painting art & his life in France and the U.S. - free resource for students, pupils, art-lovers and teachers in American art history

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Edward Hopper is well-known as the painter of the ‘American way of life’, including its modern loneliness. Hopper’s early artist quotes report of his stays in Paris, France and his starting artistic life back again in America. As young artist he got inspired by Paris and French Impressionism. Even in 1962 the old Hopper called himself… ‘still an Impressionist!’.

Back in America, Hopper earned his money as illustrator for papers and magazines, but continued his painting. He found his motives from two sources - the common features of American life: gas stations, motels, restaurants, theaters, railroads, including its people - and: seascapes and rural landscapes.
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Some selected artist-quotes of American artist Edward Hopper - as a short introduction of his extended quotes in the PDF:

• ’The people here (Paris) in fact seem to live in the streets… …not as they are in New York with that never-ending determination for the ‘long-green’, but with a pleasure-loving crowd…’ - quote from Hopper’s letter to his mother, Oct. 1906

• ’The idea (for ‘Room in New York’, he painted in 1932) 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 (in New York)…’ - quote of Hopper, cited in: ‘Life’, 102; August 1935, p. 48

• ’I am interested primarily in the vast field of experience and sensation which neither literature nor a purely plastic art deals with.’ quote from Hopper’s letter to Charles Sawyer, October, 1939

• ’Just to paint a representation or design is not hard, but to express a thought in painting is. Thought is fluid…’ - quoted in: 'Three Hundred Years of American Painting" A. Eliot; 1957, p. 298
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  selection of free art-resources on American artist Edward Hopper:

  • extended biographical notes on Edward Hopper, on Wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edward_Hopper
  • artist-quotes of ànd about Edward Hopper, on Wikiquote: https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Edward_Hopper
  • images of the painting art of Edward Hopper, on Wikiart: https://www.wikiart.org/en/edward-hopper
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    editor: Fons Heijnsbroek / Matrozenhof (FotoDutch on Wikiquote):<br>[http://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/User:FotoDutch]