Winslow Homer

I want a picture to look as if it was something they had never seen before.

Hard work and persistence are the keys to success in art.

Nature is my teacher, and I am her humble student.

The brush is mightier than the pen for me.

I came into the world either too early or too late, but not at the right time.

Every square inch of canvas must be alive.

The Adirondacks are my refuge from the world.

I paint the truth as I see it in nature.

Solitude is the artist's best companion.

The wave is my muse.

Critics are like mosquitoes; they buzz but don't bite deep.

I owe my success to the sea and the sky.

Art is not made for anybody but for the artist.

The older I grow, the more I distrust the familiar doctrine that age brings wisdom.

My pictures are like poems; they speak without words.

I have always tried to paint what I felt was the truth.

The north woods call to me like an old friend.

Light and shadow are the soul of painting.

I am a hermit by nature.

The canvas is my battlefield.