13 Winslow Homer Quotes

Winslow Homer quotes

1. In future I will live by my water-colours.

1. Only think of my being alive with a reputation!

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

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

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

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

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

7. 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.

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

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

10. 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.

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

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