Winslow Homer Quotes

• There is no such thing as talent. What they call talent is nothing but the capacity for doing continuous work in the right way.

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  Art, Work, Way

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• When you paint, try to put down exactly what you see. Whatever else you have to offer will come out anyway.

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  Trying, Paint, Offers

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• You have the sky overhead giving one light; then the reflected light from whatever reflects; then the direct light of the sun; so that, in the blending and suffusing of these several luminations, there is no such thing as a line to be seen anywhere.

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  Light, Sky, Giving

  Winslow Homer, Lloyd Goodrich (1973). “Winslow Homer”

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• The Sun will not rise or set without my notice and thanks.

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  Appreciation, Sun, Thanks

  1895 Letter to his brother, Charles, 23 Feb.

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• I regret very much that I have painted a picture that requires any description.

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  Regret, Description, I Regret

  On being asked about the meaning of a painting by a dealer. Quoted by Andrea Bennett in the NewYork Times Book Review, 15 Sep 1991.

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• Look at nature, work independently, and solve your own problems.

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  Looks, Problem, Solve

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• Never put more than two waves in a picture; it's fussy.

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  Inspiring, Art, Two

  Winslow Homer, Lloyd Goodrich, Whitney Museum of American Art (1973). “Winslow Homer”

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• All is lovely outside my house and inside my house and myself.

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  House, Lovely, Contentment

  Winslow Homer, John Wilmerding (1972). “Winslow Homer”

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• It is wonderful how much depends upon the relations of black and white A black and white, if properly balanced, suggests colour.

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  Black And White, Wonderful, Relation

  Winslow Homer (1979). “Winslow Homer: Master of the Wood Engraving”

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• The life that I have chosen gives me my full hours of enjoyment.

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  Giving, Joy, Hours

  1895 Letter to his brother, Charles, 23 Feb.

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• You will see, in the future I will live by my watercolors.

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  Live By, Watercolors

  Winslow Homer, Lloyd Goodrich (1973). “Winslow Homer”

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• Artists should never look at pictures, but should stutter in a language of their own.

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  Artist, Looks, Language

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• I will paint for money any time.

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  Money, Paint

  Winslow Homer, Robert W. Schlageter, Cummer Gallery of Art (1977). “Winslow Homer's Florida, 1886-1909: exhibition April 22 to May 29, 1977, Cummer Gallery of Art, Jacksonville”

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• I prefer every time a picture composed and painted outdoors. The thing is done without your knowing it.

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  Knowing, Done

  Winslow Homer, Philip C. Beam, University of Rochester. Memorial Art Gallery (1990). “Winslow Homer in the 1890s: Prout's Neck observed : essays”, Hudson Hills Pr

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• 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.

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  Giving, Balance, Sun

  1895 Letter to his brother, Charles, 23 Feb.

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• What's the use? The people are too stupid. They do not understand.

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  Depression, Stupid, People

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• The most interesting part of my life is of no concern to the public.

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  Interesting, Life Is, Most Interesting

  Winslow Homer, Lloyd Goodrich (1973). “Winslow Homer”

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• Oh what a friend chance can be — when it chooses.

  Winslow Homer

  Chance

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• If a man wants to be an artist, he should never look at pictures.

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  Artist, Men, Looks

  Winslow Homer, Lloyd Goodrich, Whitney Museum of American Art (1973). “Winslow Homer”

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• Only think of my being alive with a reputation!

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  Thinking, Alive, Reputation

  Winslow Homer, Robert W. Schlageter, Cummer Gallery of Art (1977). “Winslow Homer's Florida, 1886-1909: exhibition April 22 to May 29, 1977, Cummer Gallery of Art, Jacksonville”

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• I thought for a change I would give up drinking, and it was a great mistake, and, although I reduced the size of my nose and improved my beauty, my stomach suffered.

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  Giving Up, Mistake, Drinking

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