"I'll quote Clement Greenberg, and this is probably apocryphal: 'If Hopper had been a better painter, wouldn't have been such a great artist.' There is something about the way Hopper paints that is almost inept. The drawing is rough. The figures are very iffy. But, he gives up finesse for something being absolutely right in terms of the mood or affect of the setting. If he'd spent more time finessing, the energy would have gone in the wrong place. The real essence of a painting comes in the crudeness of its execution."
- Robert Bechtle, 2015
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