If you could say it in words, there would be no reason to paint.
–Edward Hopper
Paint should not be applied thick. It should be like breath on the surface of a pane of glass.
–James McNeill Whistler | Venice (1880)
There are days which occur in this climate, at almost any season of the year,
wherein the world reaches its perfection.
–Ralph Waldo Emerson | Nature (second essay)
This world is but a canvas to our imagination.
–Henry David Thoreau
I must have flowers, always and always.
–Claude Monet
Maybe I am not very human – what I wanted to do was to paint sunlight on the side of a house.
–Edward Hopper
Like Homer, John Marin, William Zorach, Andrew Wyeth and other artists before and after him,
Hopper came to realize how ideally suited watercolor was to handling New England light.
–Carl Little | (Introduction to Edward Hopper’s New England)
