Conservative in politics and social matters (Hopper asserted for example that "artists' lives should be written by people very close to them"),Interview in 1960 with Katherine Kuhn, quoted in her The Artist's Voice, New York: Harper and Row, 1960. he accepted things as they were and displayed a lack of idealism. Cultured and sophisticated, he was well-read, and many of his paintings show figures reading.Wagstaff 2004, p. 88. He was generally good company and unperturbed by silences, though sometimes taciturn, grumpy, or detached. He was always serious about his art and the art of others, and when asked would return frank opinions.Wagstaff 2004, pp. 84–86.
Conservative in polit,ics and social matters (Hopper asserted for example that "artists' lives should be written by people very close to them"),Interview in 1960 with Katherine Kuhn quoted in her The Artist's Voice, New York: Harper and Row, 1960. he accepted things as they were and disp,layed a lack of idealism. Cultured and sophisticated, he was well-read, and many of his paintings show figures reading.Wagstaff 2004, p. 88. He was generally good company and unperturbed by silences, though sometimes taciturn, grumpy, or detached. He was always serious about his art and the art of others and when asked would return frank opinions.Wagstaff 2004, pp. 84–86.