Edward Hopper Quotes

Queen Victoria did not regard art, letters, or music as in any way springing from national character: they were something quite apart, elegant decorations resembling a scarf or a bracelet, and in no way expressive of the soul of the country.

Every country gets the circus it deserves. Spain gets bullfights. Italy the Church. America Hollywood.

The art of a people is a true mirror to their minds.

Great nations write their autobiographies in three manuscripts - the book of their deeds, the book of their words and the book of their art.

We say arts education is good for general education, but that's not the point. The arts are what great nations are remembered for. They are a mirror.

Art is a nation's most precious heritage, for it is in our works of art that we reveal to ourselves and to others, the inner vision which guides us as a nation.

American art ought to be monumental, in keeping with American life.

A country is made not by policy alone, but by its music, its entertainment shows, all of it.

Art has to be reflective of our society.

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

Every era needs a genre through which it understands itself.

Music and fashion are a sign of the times and a reflection of what people want and need at this very day and age.

A nation is a work of art and a work of time.

Nobody is sure what our culture is or whether we even have a national culture at all.

There is no pulse so sure of the state of a nation as its characteristic art product which has nothing to do with its material life.

'Authentic' is one of my least favourite words because in such a diverse country, whose authenticity are you talking about?

I'd like to see us Pakistani actors do more work that reflects our culture, morals and values.

What a country chooses to save is what a country chooses to say about itself.

The trees encountered on a country stroll Reveal a lot about that country's soul ... A culture is no better than its woods.

Well, I don't think anyone now would say that they're painting the state of the culture of America. I think that's too grand and pompous a thing for anybody to claim.

A nation must be embraced, rehabilitated and expressed as a tangible sign of human creativity and as an integral element of mankind's heritage.

The history of ideas is littered with the corpses of those who have tried to define culture.

Western civilization shapes the content of my films, provides me with subjects that haven't been used before.

What thoughts are to the individual, art is to the community as a whole. That's where you reflect on who you are, who you hope to be, what you've gone through, and where you hope to go.

I don't think my work does reflect my nationality - I don't like the idea of nationalism.