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.
From 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.
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.
With the duckets that I now have safe, I think I will retire at 66 years of age, praise God, in good health.
Every condition must be favorable, or I do not work and will not.
Do not think that I have stopped painting, for at any moment, I am liable to paint a good picture.
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.
I prefer every time a picture composed and painted outdoors.
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.
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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