In the Right

                                        Let life happen to you. Believe me; life is in the right, always.

Rainer Maria Rilke

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Pennies from Heaven
1981

More Leah Frances

Hopper Sketches

Try to Remember

      It's June second, he told himself. Try to remember that. This is New York, and tomorrow will be June third. If all goes well, the following day will be the fourth. But nothing is certain.

New York Trilogy
Paul Auster
1987

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Edward Hopper

Buried in Blue

                         Sweet as mother's milk
                         And clear as the wind
                         Wrap the dead in a pleat of silk
                         Blue is the color to be buried in

                         The painting's complete
                         The brushstrokes dry
                         I hear a band playing
                         A bent note or two
                         I guess someone died
                         And just wants to be
                         Buried in blue

Buried in Blue
(Connick/McLean)
Harry Connick Jnr

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Edward Hopper - Western Motel

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T5aH2yPIcwU&ab_channel=HarryConnick%2CJr.-Topic

A Hopper State of Mind

        Pain is what we don't attend to. We allow our silence to be hemmed in by isolation. The space beyond shapes us. Our fears may become the curators of our lived presence, our observed behaviours, our forgotten dreams.
        Don't let them go. We own one body and one mind. It's all ours, and in the end it's all we have.

A Hopper State of Mind
Aileen Walsh
The Double Negative.co.uk
2021

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Tribute to Hopper/unknown

Always Starting Over

      There is only one day left, always starting over : it is given to us at dawn and taken away at dusk.

Jean Paul Sartre

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Edward Hopper Gas (detail)

Between Day and Night

          Hopper's painting represents a borderline situation. It is set at the frontier between day and night, between civilization and nature. The gas station has the appearance of a last outpost, where the human realm gives way, across the road, to the anonymous realm of nature, the edge of the woods rises like a dark wall in which no individual tree can be discerned. But our eye returns again and again to it's warm hue. The bright, almost pure white fluorescent light in the gas station, in contrast, is almost painful to look at, and the eye shifts to the ribbon of road leading out of the picture to the right.

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Kafkasapartment Tumblr

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Gas
Edward Hopper
1940

https://kafkasapartment.tumblr.com/post/49607817972/gas-1940-by-edward-hopper-hoppers-painting

Always Darker

                   Thoughts are the shadows of our feelings - always darker, emptier and simpler.

Friedrich Nietzsche

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Gustav Deutsch
Hopper Tribute

Coming Off Shift #4

Double Nickel (2023)

Ashes and Diamonds

End of Violence

A Double Life

Apple Pie, Ice Cream

Fallen Angel

The Booth at the End

Last Picture Show

Goodfellas

Big Sleep

The Sting

Brighton Rock

Mad Men

Mildred Pierce (1945)

After Hours

Terminal

Shack Out on 101

Wonder Wheel

Twin Peaks

No Door to Enter

          In place of meaningful interactions, the four characters inside the diner of Edward Hopper's Nighthawks are involved in a series of near misses. The man and woman might be touching hands, but they aren't. The waiter and smoking man might be conversing, but they're not. The couple might strike up a conversation with the man facing them, but somehow, we know they won't. And then we realize that Hopper has placed us, the viewer, on the city street, with no door to enter the diner, and yet in a position to evaluate each of the people inside. We see the row of empty counter stools nearest us. We notice that no one is making eye contact with anyone else. Up close, the waiter's face appears to have an expression of horror or pain. And there's a chilling revelation ; each of us is completely alone in the world.

Christine Zapella
Smarthistory.org

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Nighthawks
Edward Hopper
1942
                                https://smarthistory.org/seeing-america-2/nighthawks-sa/

On Noir Set #29

Quai Des Brumes

Carol

A Double Life

Babylon Berlin

Double Indemnity

Chinatown

Clash By Night

Godfather II

Fallen Idol

History of Violence

Killers Kiss

Memento

Outrage

Mikey and Nicky

I'll Sleep When I'm Dead

They Shoot Horses Don't They

Two or Three Things I Know About Edward Hopper

Touch of Evil

Rear Window