The man's the work. Something does not come out of nothing. - Edward Hopper

[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.

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.

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