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

The idea [for his painting 'Room in New York', he painted in 1932] had been in my mind a long time before I painted it. It was suggested by glimpses of lighted interiors seen as I walked along city streets at night, probably near the district where I live [Washington Square, New York] although it’s no particular street or house, but is really a synthesis of many impressions.

They are in a high key, somewhat like impressionism or a modified impressionism. I think I'm still an impressionist.

It seemed awful crude and raw here when I got back [after his return from his third and last trip to Europe, in 1910]. It took me ten years to get over Europe.