Winslow Homer
Quotations

"The life 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."

- A letter to his brother Charles

 

"I have had not master; and never shall have any."

 

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

- When asked for a few lines about The Gulf Stream

 

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

 

"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."