American - Artist | February 24, 1836 - September 29, 1910
The sun will not rise or set without my notice, and thanks.
Winslow Homer
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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.
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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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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.
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You will see - in the future, I will live by my watercolors.
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A man is known by his works. That I have heard at many a funeral.
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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.
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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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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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If a man wants to be an artist, he must never look at pictures.
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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.
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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.'
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