Edward Hopper Quotes

I don't like acrylic because you can't get the density of color. And with each coat of oil paint, the surface gets better and richer.

I'm just really impressed by oil paintings - I don't see how people do it! That's the style I like: classic oil paintings. Abstract art just isn't my thing.

Monet was like a conductor. He painted with quite a straight arm and used bold strokes.

I hardly ever stretch the canvas before painting.

I like to treat paint as material - to daub it, drop it, let it slide. There was Action Painting, but I also compare it to paint effects found on the streets. This approach is superimposed on a sculptural surface that is also 'painterly.'

I did some pastels and I did other pieces in which there was just basically one color per square, and then they would get bigger and I could get 2 or 3 colors into the square, and ultimately I just started making oil paintings.

Most people wouldn't guess, but I'm really into painting: acrylics and sometimes oils.

One of the funny things about the stock market is that every time one person buys, another sells, and both think they are astute.

I don't think you can lightly paint a picture. It's an activity I take very seriously.

Painters must speak through paint, not through words.

One learns about painting by looking at and imitating other painters.

I learned a lot of painting tricks painting outside.

My painting does not come from the easel.

Mark Grotjahn's large new paintings abound with torrents of ropy impasto, laid down in thickets, cascading waves, and bundles that swell, braid around, or overlap one another.

When you're eight years old nothing is your business.

Well, I have a very simple method of painting.

I paint landscapes, figuratives. I painted all my life. In fact, I started as a commercial artist.

And I started with this: I have not painted at all my childhood. In fact, I never painted. But I helped my father who was a house painter and decorative painter. He made stage sets, he made glass paintings, he made everything.

I do tend to use watercolors - I love the splatter sort of thing you can do with watercolors.

I don't want to get myself in trouble - and I don't think I'm super important or anything - but I think it's so funny that when you look at the business and the way that people make decisions in their lives, whether they're in art or music or they're in industry, they forget that being unique is the answer.

I wanted to be in show business, and I was funny.

I wanted to learn how to paint rather than just doing black-and-white work.

I've been trying to pick up painting but it's hard.

Work at the same time on sky, water, branches, ground, keeping everything going on an equal basis... Don't be afraid of putting on colour... Paint generously and unhesitatingly, for it is best not to lose the first impression.

I have a funny family, but none of them are remotely in show business.