I am interested primarily in the vast field of experience and sensation which neither literature nor a purely plastic art deals with. - Edward Hopper

So much of every art is an expression of the subconscious that it seems to me most of all the important qualities are put there unconsciously, and little of importance by the conscious intellect. But these are things for the psychologist to untangle.

[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.

I do not know why I chose one subject rather than another unless I believe them to be the best synthesis of my inner experience.