Author: Winslow Homer

Quotes

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.

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

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.

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

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

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

I prefer every time a picture composed and painted outdoors.

I prefer every time a picture composed and painted outdoors.

- 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.

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

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

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

- Winslow Homer

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

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

- 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.'

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

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.

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

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