Quotes About Winslow Homer

#1. Walt Whitman's "Leaves of Grass" is still in print. They're debating right now over Mark Twain. He's still available. Winslow Homer can still be seen. Our arts are - they're there. We got to go get them and understand that this is an important legacy for our country.

Wynton Marsalis

#2. Mrs. Erskine struck him as fierce and plain and haughty as one of those straight-backed red-haired girl-women in certain of the watercolors of Winslow Homer.

Joyce Carol Oates

#3. I sound like Homer. I mean Winslow Homer.

Charles Olson

#4. I will paint for money any time.

Winslow Homer

#5. Oh what a friend chance can be - when it chooses.

Winslow Homer

#6. 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

#7. The judiciary must not take on the coloration of whatever may be popular at the moment. We are guardian of rights, and we have to tell people things they often do not like to hear.

Rose Bird

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

Winslow Homer

#9. 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.

Winslow Homer

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

Winslow Homer

#11. Child slavery is a crime against humanity. Humanity itself is at stake here. A lot of work still remains, but I will see the end of child labor in my lifetime.

Kailash Satyarthi

#12. All is lovely outside my house and inside my house and myself.

Winslow Homer

#13. I prefer every time a picture composed and painted outdoors. The thing is done without your knowing it.

Winslow Homer

#14. The whole idea of music, from the beginning of time, was for people to be happy

Robert Plant

#15. I sit down and watch videos. I take notes. That's when that inspiration comes - the moment that makes sense of my profession. The instant I know, for sure, that I've got it. I know how to win. It's the moment that my job becomes truly meaningful.

Pep Guardiola

#16. The sun will not rise or set without my notice, and thanks.

Winslow Homer

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

Winslow Homer

#18. It is not so essential to think much as to love much.

Teresa Of Avila

#19. The admiration of another writer's work is almost in inverse proportion to similarities in style.

Ann Beattie

#20. Rage is a powerful energy that with diligent practice can be transformed into fierce compassion. However much we disagree with our enemies, our task is to identify with them. They too feel justified in their point of view.

Gautama Buddha

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

Winslow Homer

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

Winslow Homer

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

Winslow Homer

#24. When others fail to celebrate you, celebrate your own achievements.

Janiese Wesley

#25. You have to have a catcher because if you don't you're likely to have a lot of passed balls.

Casey Stengel

#26. Only think of my being alive with a reputation!

Winslow Homer

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

Winslow Homer

#28. The annual labour of every nation is the fund which originally supplies it with all the necessaries and conveniencies of life which it annually consumes, and which consist always either in the immediate produce of that labour, or in what is purchased with that produce from other nations.

Adam Smith

#29. When I started acting, my whole focus and intention was to work as a stage actor in a company where you're asked to different roles - do a comedy, do a tragedy, etc. I haven't had any reservations about jumping from one type of genre to another.

Kyle MacLachlan

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

Winslow Homer

#31. There is one thing that is infinitely more absurd and unpractical than burning a man for his philosophy. This is the habit of saying that his philosophy does not matter, and this is done universally in the twentieth century.

G.K. Chesterton

#32. I regret very much that I have painted a picture that requires any description.

Winslow Homer

#33. The most interesting part of my life is of no concern to the public.

Winslow Homer

#34. 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.

Winslow Homer

#35. It is wonderful how much depends upon the relations of black and white A black and white, if properly balanced, suggests colour.

Winslow Homer