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 Read Quote
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. Winslow Homer Read Quote
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 Read Quote
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 Read Quote
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 Read Quote
