The people here in fact seem to live in the streets, which are alive from morning until night, not as they are in New York with that never-ending determination for the 'long-green', but with a pleasure-loving crowd that doesn't care what it does or where it goes, so that it has a good time.

Edward Hopper, in a letter to his mother, Paris, October 30, 1906; as quoted in "Edward Hopper", Gail Levin, Bonfini Press, Switzerland 1984, p. 14 - 1905 – 1910 (Travel)