Frases de Edward Hopper

Edward Hopper [1]​ fue un pintor estadounidense, célebre sobre todo por sus retratos de la soledad en la vida estadounidense contemporánea. Se le considera uno de los pintores de la escuela Ashcan, que a través de Arshile Gorky llevó al expresionismo abstracto posterior a la Segunda Guerra Mundial.



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✵ 22. julio 1882 – 15. mayo 1967
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Edward Hopper: Frases en inglés

“To me the most important thing is the sense of going on. You know how beautiful things are when you're traveling.”

'Edward Hopper in Saõ Paulo', as cited by William C. Seitz, Smithsonian Press, Washington D.C., 1967
posthumous

“The man's the work. Something does not come out of nothing.”

Hopper's answer to journalists -quoted by Avis Berman in 'Hopper, the Supreme American Realist of the 20th Century' Smithsonian Magazine June 2007
1941 - 1967

“The only quality that endures in art is a personal vision of the world. Methods are transient: personality is enduring.”

1941 - 1967
Fuente: 'statement by the Chairman of the Jury', Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington D.C. 1951, p. 7

“[on the question 'Why selecting certain subjects over others':] I do not exactly know, unless it is that I believe them [his chosen subjects] to be the best mediums for a synthesis of my inner experience.”

posthumous
Fuente: 'Edward Hopper', Goodrich; p. 152; as quoted in "Edward Hopper", Gail Levin, Bonfini Press, Switzerland 1984, p. 52

“Originality is neither a matter of inventiveness nor method, it is the essence of personality.”

Quoted by Selden Rodman, inConversations with Artists, Capricorn Books, New York, 1961
1941 - 1967

“In every work of genius we recognize our own rejected thoughts; they come back to us with a certain alienated majesty.”

Hopper quoted this from Ralph Waldo Emerson's book Self Reliance, the book he loved throughout his life
1941 - 1967
Fuente: 'How Edward Hopper Saw the Light', by Joseph Phelan, at Artcyclopedia online

“It takes a long time for an idea to strike.”

quoted by Sheena Wagstaff 'Edward Hopper', Tate Publishing (2004)
1941 - 1967

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