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Top 22 Winslow Homer Quotes in 2020

By: Quotes Guru | Last Updated: June 19, 2020

“The life that I have chosen gives me my full hours of enjoyment for the balance of my life: the sun will not rise, or set, without my notice and thanks.”

― Winslow Homer

“Talent! There’s no such thing as talent. What they call talent is nothing but the capacity for doing continuous hard work in the right way.”

― Winslow Homer

“You will see – in the future, I will live by my watercolors.”

― Winslow Homer

“You can’t get along without a knowledge of the principles and rules governing the influence of one color upon another. A mechanic might as well try to get along without tools.”

― Winslow Homer

“The sun will not rise or set without my notice, and thanks.”

― Winslow Homer

“Mr. C. Klackner has for sale four etchings etched by myself, at the expense of two years’ time & hard work – ‘The Life Line,’ ‘Peril on the Sea,’ ‘Eight Bells,’ ‘Mending Tears,’ – all of which are very good and should have been put forward long ago, but C. Klackner is waiting for me to die, is my idea of the matter.”

― Winslow Homer

“I don’t want a lot of people nosing round my studio and bothering me. I don’t want to see them at all. Let the dealers have all that bother.”

― Winslow Homer

“Every condition must be favorable, or I do not work and will not.”

― Winslow Homer

“I prefer every time a picture composed and painted outdoors.”

― Winslow Homer

“This making studies and then taking them home to use them is only half right. You get composition, but you lose freshness; you miss the subtle and, to the artist, the finer characteristics of the scene itself.”

― Winslow Homer

“A man is known by his works. That I have heard at many a funeral.”

― Winslow Homer

“If a man wants to be an artist, he must never look at pictures.”

― Winslow Homer

“The slavery at Bufford’s was too fresh in my recollection to let me care to bind myself again. From the time that I took my nose off that lithographic stone, I have had no master, and never shall have any.”

― Winslow Homer

“When will you learn that the time to buy a thing is when you find what you want? If you go back the next year and try to get more, they will try to sell you something else.”

― Winslow Homer

“Only once in the last thirty years have I made a duplicate, and that was a watercolor from my oil picture now owned by the Layton Art Gallery, Milwaukee, called ‘Hark! the Lark.’”

― Winslow Homer

“It is certainly a most tremendous and unprecedented honor and distinction that I have received from Pittsburgh. Let us hope that it is not too late in my case to be of value to American art in something that I may yet possibly do from this encouragement.”

― Winslow Homer

“I do not care to put out any ideas for pictures. They are too valuable and can be appropriated by any art student, defrauding me out of a possible picture.”

― Winslow Homer

“Anything written or printed under a print or picture takes the attention from it and, if it is very black or white in any marked degree, will utterly destroy its beauty.”

― Winslow Homer

“With the duckets that I now have safe, I think I will retire at 66 years of age, praise God, in good health.”

― Winslow Homer

“Do not think that I have stopped painting, for at any moment, I am liable to paint a good picture.”

― Winslow Homer

“I decide to go direct to Key West… I know the place quite well, and it’s near the points in Florida that I wish to visit. I have an idea at present of doing some work but do not know how long that will last.”

― Winslow Homer

“I wouldn’t go across the street to see a Bouguereau. His pictures look false; he does not get the truth of what he wishes to represent. His light is not outdoor light; his works are waxy and artificial. They are extremely near being frauds.”

― Winslow Homer

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