My aim in painting has always been the most exact transcription possible of my most intimate impression of nature.

  • -- Edward Hopper 爱德华·霍珀

我绘画的目的一直是尽可能准确地记录我对自然最亲密的印象。

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It's not an epitaph. I felt I could look back at my life and get a good story out of it. It's a picture of somebody trying to figure things out. I'm not trying to create some impression about myself. That doesn't interest me.

这不是墓志铭。我觉得我可以回顾我的生活,从中得到一个好的故事。这是一个人试图解决问题的图片。我不是想给自己留下什么印象。我对此不感兴趣。

You would hardly believe how difficult it is to place a figure alone on a canvas, and to concentrate all the interest on this single and universal figure and still keep it living and real.

你几乎不会相信,把一个人单独放在画布上,把所有的兴趣都集中在这个单一的、普遍的人物身上,同时又保持它的鲜活和真实,是多么困难。