Top 100 Hopper's Quotes
#1. Happiness was attainable for anyone who had enough courage to reach for it. Just because I had to reach further than some only made it that much more appreciated. Today, in this moment, I was wrapping both hands around my happiness, grabbing it tight. Hopper's
Cambria Hebert
#2. Hopper's paintings are full of women like her; women who appear to be in the grips of a loneliness that has to do with gender and unattainable standards of appearance, and that gets increasingly toxic and strangulating with age.
Olivia Laing
#3. What we hope for from the artist is help in discovering the significance of a place. In this sense we would choose in most respects for thirty minutes with Edward Hopper's painting Sunday Morning to thirty minutes on the street that was his subject; with Hopper's vision we see more.
Robert Adams
#4. Hopper's best friend, Dean Stockwell, who starred with him in 'Blue Velvet,' let me watch golf with him while parsing out memories of when he and Hopper went off the deep end in Mexico.
Tom Folsom
#5. It's to paint directly on the canvas without any funny business, as it were, and I use almost pure turpentine to start with, adding oil as I go along until the medium becomes pure oil. I use as little oil as I can possibly help, and that's my method.
Edward Hopper
#6. Leadership is a two-way street, loyalty up and loyalty down.
(CBS 60 Minutes interview, March 6, 1983)
Grace Murray Hopper
#7. I recognize very much in Hopper that it does look like the United States; it looks like the 30's and my first impressions of everything, all of which I have to deal with and which gets mixed up in my work and probably gets mixed up in everybody else's work too.
Donald Judd
#8. The only phrase I've ever disliked is, 'Why, we've always done it that way.' I always tell young people, 'Go ahead and do it. You can always apologize later.'
Grace Hopper
#9. The question of the value of nationality in art is perhaps unsolvable.
Edward Hopper
#10. The Australian fans are really friendly and personable; the sense of humour is a lot less dry than the English.
Tom Hopper
#11. If one ox could not do the job they did not try to grow a bigger ox, but used two oxen. When we need greater computer power, the answer is not to get a bigger computer, but ... to build systems of computers and operate them in parallel.
Grace Hopper
#12. And in singing, what my voice lacked in quality it made up for in volume.
Hedda Hopper
#13. At one time I thought he wanted to be an actor. He had certain qualifications, including no money and a total lack of responsibility.
Hedda Hopper
#14. It's always easier to apologize for something you've already done than to get approval for it in advance.
Grace Hopper
#15. Utopia has a way of hiding in plain sight.
David Hopper
#16. I find in working always the disturbing intrusion of elements not a part of my most interested vision, and the inevitable obliteration and replacement of this vision by the work itself as it proceeds.
Edward Hopper
#17. Because deep down you know that someone needs to keep you out of trouble.
Mike L. Hopper
#18. Press agent - a man who hitches his braggin' to a star.
Hedda Hopper
#20. When we're out of the eighties, the nineties are gonna make the sixties look like the fifties!
Dennis Hopper
#21. I can wear a hat or take it off, but either way it's a conversation piece.
Hedda Hopper
#22. To me the most important thing is the sense of going on. You know how beautiful things are when you're traveling.
Edward Hopper
#23. Work is fun to me. All those years of being an actor and a director and not being able to get a job - two weeks is too long to not know what my next job will be.
Dennis Hopper
#25. Founded in 1994 by the Anita Borg Institute and growing every year, the Grace Hopper Celebration is bringing needed network connections, skill building, and visibility for women computer scientists who work at all levels of our industry.
Megan Smith
#26. Hustling sex for cash ain't dangerous if you learn the tricks quick, and that means puttin' yourself in a different mindset. Always scout for an exit for when you need it. Act confident and tough and you won't get hurt. Being scared or nervous will get you cut up and stuffed in a fuckin' bag.
Jon Michaelsen
#27. I think that zinc white has a property of scaling and cracking.
Edward Hopper
#28. I've never seen a Lindy Hopper who wasn't smiling. It's a happy dance. It makes you feel good.
Frankie Manning
#29. I guess I'm not very human. All I really want to do is paint light on the side of a house.
Edward Hopper
#30. 'Easy Rider' was never a motorcycle movie to me. A lot of it was about politically what was going on in the country.
Dennis Hopper
#31. When you travel across London, it can take two hours to get from one end of London to the other, when it actually takes me two hours to get up to Leicester.
Tom Hopper
#32. After all, we are not French and never can be, and any attempt to be so is to deny our inheritance and to try to impose upon ourselves a character that can be nothing but a veneer upon the surface.
Edward Hopper
#33. If it's a good idea, go ahead and do it. It's much easier to apologize than it is to get permission.
Grace Hopper
#34. Yessir, some things is sin 'cause God says so. Some things is sin 'cause they hurt other people. And some things is just pure-dee stupid.
David Hopper
#35. People keep asking me, 'What evil lurks in you to play such bad characters?' There is no evil in me, I just wear tight underwear.
Dennis Hopper
#37. You know, this is such a rich time that we've just been involved in, and there's really a job now for historians. Film is still very young. This is the first hundred years of filmmaking. So I think it's important that we have some sense of history and continuity. Especially in film.
Dennis Hopper
#38. I believe that the great painters with their intellect as master have attempted to force this unwilling medium of paint and canvas into a record of their emotions.
Edward Hopper
#39. There will be, I think, an attempt to grasp again the surprise and accidents of nature and a more intimate and sympathetic study of its moods, together with a renewed wonder and humility on the part of such as are still capable of these basic reactions.
Edward Hopper
#40. It's (the lack of communication between the people in his paintings, ed.) probably a reflection of my own, if I may say, loneliness. I don't know. It could be the whole human condition.
Edward Hopper
#41. Other people like Neil Young and Dennis Hopper, those are just really close knit family friends.
Amber Tamblyn
#42. Nobody's interested in sweetness and light.
Hedda Hopper
#43. 'Merlin' was a big step; it was my first big role in a show.
Tom Hopper
#44. In its most limited sense, modern, art would seem to concern itself only with the technical innovations of the period.
Edward Hopper
#45. From then on, when anything went wrong with a computer, we said it had bugs in it.
Grace Hopper
#46. He's so interesting because you think you know Dennis Hopper, but you don't really know Dennis Hopper. I don't really know Dennis Hopper, I just know him from the silver screen.
Nathan Lane
#47. I was very shy, and it was a lot easier for me to communicate if I had a camera between me and other people.
Dennis Hopper
#48. I'm no romantic, surfing, California boy. I like reading, writing, philosophizing. Scheming. I've been doing some exploration of the inner space.
Henry Hopper
#49. Too bad I couldn't take Hopper out drinking with me. He could have become Bar Hopper.
Richelle Mead
#50. By 1940 Grace Hopper was bored. She had no children, her marriage was unexciting, and teaching math was not as fulfilling as she had hoped.
Walter Isaacson
#51. I think I found that when I was doing a show on a regular basis and just acting constantly, that was when I was at my happiest.
Tom Hopper
#52. I think some of the things I deal with Hopper probably has dealt with also, since it's somewhat the same environment and I have pretty strong reactions to what this country looks like. It looks pretty dull and spare, and you like this and dislike it and it's very complicated.
Donald Judd
#53. We're flooding people with information. We need to feed it through a processor. A human must turn information into intelligence or knowledge.
Grace Hopper
#54. I should have been dead ten times over. I've thought about that a lot. I believe in miracles. It's an absolute miracle that I'm still around.
Dennis Hopper
#55. I've received many honors and I'm grateful for them; but I've already received the highest award I'll ever receive, and that has been the privilege and honor of serving very proudly in the United States Navy.
Grace Hopper
#56. Dialectic logic is there's only love and hate, you either love somebody or you hate them.
Dennis Hopper
#57. I'm a 'tweener,' man! I couldn't march with Dr. King and them. And I'm too old to be a hip-hopper. But I've been granted honorary status in each generation ... I see my tongue as a bridge over which ideas can travel back and forth.
Michael Eric Dyson
#58. When I don't feel in the mood for painting I go to the movies for a week or more. I go on a regular movie binge!
Edward Hopper
#59. In Hollywood gratitude is Public Enemy Number One.
Hedda Hopper
#60. The trend in some of the contemporary movements in art, but by no means all, seems to deny this ideal and to me appears to lead to a purely decorative conception of painting.
Edward Hopper
#61. If you do something once, people will call it an accident. If you do it twice, they call it a coincidence. But do it a third time and you've just proven a natural law!
Grace Hopper
#62. As an aside, Hop got gold stars because he had buttermilk available for pancakes. These stars started shining when he told me pancakes weren't worth making without buttermilk and, since this was the God's honest truth, I took it as happy indication that Hopper Kincaid and I might just be soul mates.
Kristen Ashley
#63. If I had the energy, I would have done it all over the county.
Edward Hopper
#64. While sitting on the hopper, in a blissful state of belieflessness, the Universe sent me this silly pun: Arrogant know-it-alls actually know nothing,
while humble know-nothings seem to know everything...
Maximus Freeman
#65. Independent films in this country are in the same position. Miramax and Fine Line are not independent - they're with Disney! Come on. Or they're with Warner Brothers. They're all with somebody.
Dennis Hopper
#66. I'm not much of a fly tier. I can do it - my friend calls it 'ham and eggs tying' - and I tie some cool flies that I can't buy in a fly shop, but other than that, I would no more sit down and tie a dozen hopper patterns than I would do something absolutely insane, like build a rod.
Jack Ohman
#67. I've learned almost everything I know about acting from my dad.
Henry Hopper
#68. I still get weirded out when people recognise me.
Tom Hopper
#69. Seven of those days were pretty good. The eighth day was the bad one.
Dennis Hopper
#70. It is easier to apologize than to get permission.
Grace Hopper
#73. My aim in painting has always been the most exact transcription possible of my most intimate impression of nature.
Edward Hopper
#74. No matter what you say about the town, and anything you say probably is true, there's never been another like it.
Hedda Hopper
#75. I've been a Republican since Reagan. I voted for Bush and his father. I don't tell a lot of people, because I live in a city where somebody who voted for Bush is really an outcast.
Dennis Hopper
#76. If the technical innovations of the Impressionists led merely to a more accurate representation of nature, it was perhaps of not much value in enlarging their powers of expression.
Edward Hopper
#77. On one side you have book burners, Congressional wives and Pat Robertson. On the other side, you have vulgar comedians, foul-mouthed rap groups and Dennis Hopper - all your choices should be so easy.
Sandra Bernhard
#78. To me programming is more than an important practical art. It is also a gigantic undertaking in the foundations of knowledge.
Grace Hopper
#79. I was a Shakespearean actor, I had preconceived ideas, line readings - everything was a gesture, everything was conscious.
Dennis Hopper
#80. I once got a little camera to use for details of architecture and so forth but the photo was always so different from the perspective the eye gives, I gave it up.
Edward Hopper
#81. Butte was once a grand city. To me, that city is like one big stage for Edward Hopper. You could put your camera anywhere, and you felt you were looking at his paintings.
Wim Wenders
#82. The best and only authentic book written on the sixties underground.
Dennis Hopper
#83. You're very arrogant, Hopper Kincaid."
"Yeah, well, man gets that way when a woman that looks like you comes as hard as I can make you come.
Kristen Ashley
#84. In Method acting, you can't have preconceived ideas. You have to live in the moment. You have to keep yourself open.
Dennis Hopper
#85. It takes more than going down to the video store and renting "Easy Rider" to be a rebel.
Dennis Hopper
#86. Of course, there are many, many musicians whose music gives me pleasure, but until I make contact with them, musically or personally, I never assume that anything wonderful will happen.
Hugh Hopper
#87. What I adore is the juxtaposition of high tech and low tech. It's sort of like I love the sacred and the profane. I love to put these extremes in the same hopper.
Julie Taymor
#88. There is a sort of elation about sunlight on the upper part of a house.
Edward Hopper
#89. I used to have to wear a gas mask to school when I was a kid because of the dust. I would tell people that the first light I saw was in a movie theater, because the sun was just a little glow.
Dennis Hopper
#90. Well, I think there are artists who are more or less contemporary with Hopper who are more relevant.
Donald Judd
#91. I see myself as a creative being. My only fear is compromising my integrity. I guess that's a constant struggle.
Henry Hopper
#92. You can very easily be turned into a commodity. I've grown up with it.
Henry Hopper
#93. Hollywood was always heartbreak town, though most of the world fancied it to be Shangri-La, King Solomon's mines, and Fort Knox rolled into one big ball of 24-karat gold.
Hedda Hopper
#94. I will not take what you need to give me. I will take what you want to give me.
Grace Hopper
#95. London's so busy, London's manic half the time.
Tom Hopper
#96. Each romance, the type of self-destructive gesture Hedda Hopper would call "marry-kiri".Instead of plunging a sword into one's stomach, you repeatedly throw yourself on the most inappropriate erect penis.
Chuck Palahniuk
#97. Jimmy [Dean] was the most talented and original actor I ever saw work. He was also a guerrilla artist who attacked all restrictions on his sensibility. Once he pulled a switchblade and threatened to murder his director. I imitated his style in art and in life. It got me in a lot of trouble.
Dennis Hopper
#99. I forget I'm on a TV show sometimes.
Tom Hopper
#100. I find linseed oil and white lead the most satisfactory mediums.
Edward Hopper
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