Mary Woronov on Edward Hopper and New York:

Of course, our reaction is to say that was New York in the past - and it is true, New York now is not so stark. It is covered with lights and advertisements, wearing boutiques and restaurants like the garish make-up of an old woman trying to look sixteen. I remember Soho when it was a produce market, a workingman's place. Some buildings were empty and some artist had moved in. Now it looks like the insides of a giant maul that some unknown force had gutted and splattered all over the city. Hopper's paintings pull us in and suddenly we are all filled with longing for a time when things were more black and white, for a more solid time, when loneliness wasn't something you ran away from.