“The idea (for the painting 'Room in New York', 1932, ed.) 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, fh) although it's no particular street or house, but is really a synthesis of many impressions.” MindLongIdeasNightHouseRoomsCitiesStreetsNew YorkParticularPaintingLong TimeImpressionSquaresInteriorsGlimpseSynthesisCity StreetsStreets At Night Author:Edward Hopper
“the best way to remember a beautiful city or a beautiful painting is to eat something while you are looking at it. The flavor really helps the image to penetrate the body. It fixes it as lacquer does a drawing.” WayDoeHelpingBodyBeautifulRememberCitiesPaintingEatingDrawingBest WayFlavorPenetrateBeautiful CityBeautiful Paintings Author:Anais Nin
“(Canada) - the most parochial nationette on earth ... I have been living in this sanctimonious icebox ... painting portraits of the opulent Methodists of Toronto. Methodism and money in this city have produced a sort of hell of dullness.” Has BeensEarthCitiesHellPaintingCanadaPortraitsTorontoDullnessMethodistsSanctimonious Author:Wyndham Lewis
“The museum is full of interesting things. All kinds of paintings are there. And then paintings too thick to put in a frame, that they call sculpture. And then there are spectators. with their scorecards, rooting for culture. And spectators of the spectators, looking for love's introduction. And art students taking notes. And old women trying to remember the past. And old men with too much to forget. And tourists, thinking that a museum represents a city. And loafers so poor, they study their soberness here.” ThinkingMenTryingKindArtPastRememberCultureForgetInterestingPoorCitiesStudyToo MuchStudentsPaintingNotesAll KindsOld ManMuseumsThickSculptureSpectatorsIntroductionInteresting ThingsTouristsOld WomanLooking For LoveRemembering The PastLoafersArt Students Author:Marvin L. Cohen
“The first painting that I realised I liked was 'The Garden of Earthly Delights' by Hieronymus Bosch, when I was six years old, at the Prado in Madrid. I still find myself returning there every time I'm in the city.” YearsFirstsStillsCitiesPaintingSixGardenDelightRealisedSix Year OldsMadrid Author:Carolina Herrera
“It was ironic that there I was finally painting the pictures I'd always wanted to paint and feeling very much at home in the countryside, and I ended up working in New York City, which is definitely the archetypal city.” FeelingsHomeWantedCitiesNew YorkPaintingPaintNew York CityIronicCountryside Author:Brian Froud