Winslow Homer Quotes

Winslow Homer

American Artist

Born: Feb 24, 1836

Died: Sep 29, 1910

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

Future You Will Live See Watercolors

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

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

Will Black Degree Picture Beauty White Marked Destroy Black Or White Written Takes Attention Print Printed Very Any Anything Utterly

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

Man Known His Heard Many Works Funeral

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

Man Must Never He Pictures Look Artist Wants

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

Time Myself Me Care Master Too Took Recollection Shall Never Had Fresh Off Stone Any Nose Again Bind Slavery

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

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

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

Life Work Hard Work Time Myself Good Me Waiting Matter Tears Long Mending Put Idea Peril Line Been Years Sale Very Die Expense Eight Which Should Sea Hard Forward Bells Four Two

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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