Quotes by Winslow Homer - Page 1

I will paint for money any time.
Winslow Homer / Illustrator
Money
Paint
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Only think of my being alive with a reputation!
Winslow Homer / Illustrator
Alive
Reputation
Thinking
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Oh what a friend chance can be — when it chooses.
Winslow Homer / Illustrator
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Never put more than two waves in a picture; it's fussy.
Winslow Homer / Illustrator
Art
Inspiring
Two
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The Sun will not rise or set without my notice and thanks.
Winslow Homer / Illustrator
Appreciation
Smile
Sun
Thanks
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You will see, in the future I will live by my watercolors.
Winslow Homer / Illustrator
Live By
Watercolors
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The sun will not rise or set without my notice, and thanks.
Winslow Homer / Illustrator
Sun
Thanks
Rise
Without
Set
Notice
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You will see - in the future, I will live by my watercolors.
Winslow Homer / Illustrator
Future
Watercolors
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I prefer every time a picture composed and painted outdoors.
Winslow Homer / Illustrator
Picture
Prefer
Composed
Every Time
Outdoors
Painted
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All is lovely outside my house and inside my house and myself.
Winslow Homer / Illustrator
Contentment
House
Lovely
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If a man wants to be an artist, he must never look at pictures.
Winslow Homer / Illustrator
Artist
Man Must Look
Pictures
Wants
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Look at nature, work independently, and solve your own problems.
Winslow Homer / Illustrator
Looks
Problem
Solve
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The life that I have chosen gives me my full hours of enjoyment.
Winslow Homer / Illustrator
Giving
Hours
Joy
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Every condition must be favorable, or I do not work and will not.
Winslow Homer / Illustrator
Condition
Favorable
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A man is known by his works. That I have heard at many a funeral.
Winslow Homer / Illustrator
Funeral
Heard
Works
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If a man wants to be an artist, he should never look at pictures.
Winslow Homer / Illustrator
Men
Artist
Looks
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What's the use? The people are too stupid. They do not understand.
Winslow Homer / Illustrator
Depression
People
Stupid
Use
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The most interesting part of my life is of no concern to the public.
Winslow Homer / Illustrator
Interesting
Life Is
Most Interesting
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I regret very much that I have painted a picture that requires any description.
Winslow Homer / Illustrator
Description
I Regret
Regret
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Artists should never look at pictures, but should stutter in a language of their own.
Winslow Homer / Illustrator
Artist
Language
Looks
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Do not think that I have stopped painting, for at any moment, I am liable to paint a good picture.
Winslow Homer / Illustrator
Liable
Paint
Picture
Good Moment I Am
Good Picture
Moment
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I prefer every time a picture composed and painted outdoors. The thing is done without your knowing it.
Winslow Homer / Illustrator
Done
Knowing
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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.
Winslow Homer / Illustrator
Offers
Paint
Trying
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With the duckets that I now have safe, I think I will retire at 66 years of age, praise God, in good health.
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Age
Health
Good Health
Praise
Safe
God Health Good
Retire
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There is no such thing as talent. What they call talent is nothing but the capacity for doing continuous work in the right way.
Winslow Homer / Illustrator
Art
Work
Talent
Way
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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.
Winslow Homer / Illustrator
Black And White
Relation
Wonderful
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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 / Illustrator
Work
Capacity
Hard
Hard Work
Right Way
Talent
Nothing
Thing
Work Hard Work Talent
Doing
Work Talent Way
Call
Continuous
Work Hard Work Way
Right
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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.
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Bother
Me People See
Dealers
Round
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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.
Winslow Homer / Illustrator
Balance
Chosen
Enjoyment
Hours
Sun
Thanks
Me
Rise
Life Me Balance
Full
Without
Set
Gives
My Life
Notice
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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.
Winslow Homer / Illustrator
Balance
Giving
Sun
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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 / Illustrator
Ideas
Valuable
Picture
Art Student
Possible
Student
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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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Drinking
Giving Up
Mistake
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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 / Illustrator
Beauty
Attention
Black
Black Or White
Print
White
Written
Picture
Degree
Destroy
Marked
Takes
Utterly
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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 / Illustrator
Next Year
Time Will Find
Something Else
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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 / Illustrator
Knowledge
Color
Governing
Influence
Mechanic
Principles
Tools
Rules
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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 / Illustrator
Duplicate
Gallery
Milwaukee
Oil
Thirty
Lark
Watercolor
Owned
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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 / Illustrator
Recollection
Time Myself Me
Bind
Master
Nose
Shall
Stone
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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 / Illustrator
Characteristics
Composition
Freshness
Subtle
Finer
Studies
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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 / Illustrator
Direct
Florida
Wish
Work Long Will
Present
Near
Visit
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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 / Illustrator
Artificial
Across
Represent
Extremely
False
Street
Frauds
Near
Outdoor
Pictures
Wishes
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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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Giving
Light
Sky
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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 / Illustrator
Encouragement
Distinction
Honor
Late
Pittsburgh
Too Late
Unprecedented
Case
Tremendous
Let Us
Received
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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 / Illustrator
Bells
Eight
Hard Work
Mending
Peril
Sea
Tears
Waiting
Life Time Work
Die
Mr
Expense
Life Work Time
Forward
Sale
Line
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