Winslow Homer Quotes

I dream of painting and then I paint my dream.

No, I never had any dreams. The process of art is a dream in itself. The artist just doesn't... you work out something. It's yours. You don't have to go to sleep to do that. You do that on the canvas.

I am like a folk painter. Paint and move ahead.

The painting has a life of its own. I try to let it come through.

Artists today think of everything they do as a work of art. It is important to forget about what you are doing - then a work of art may happen.

An artist is he for whom the goal and center of life is to form his mind.

I want to do nothing chic, I want to have ideas before beginning a piece.

Every human is an artist. The dream of your life is to make beautiful art.

So I don't think of myself as just a musician at all, I think of myself as an artist.

I love to create, and to me, the ultimate freedom of expression is a blank canvas or a block of clay to capture whatever emotions your imagination gives it.

To be an artist, you need to play inside your work.

I don't know what a painting is; who knows what sets off even the desire to paint? It might be things, thoughts, a memory, sensations, which have nothing to do directly with painting itself. They can come from anything and anywhere.

There is no such thing as an artist - only the world, lit or unlit, as the world allows.

I was blown away by being able to color. Then I started to draw... bringing a blank white canvas to life was fascinating.

No one was creating and I always wanted to be created on.

All the things we have to remember, and I've mentioned this before, is that we're all artists.

Only a bad artist thinks he has a good idea. A good artist does not need anything.

There is something magical in seeing what you can do, what texture and tone and colour you can produce merely with a pen point and a bottle of ink.

As long as you're true to you, you believe it and you make others believe it, then what you're doing is just art. If you give everybody a blank canvas and some paint, not everybody's picture is going to be exactly the same, but it's still art. I just do what I do.

My art springs from my desire to have things in the world which would otherwise never be there.

To give a body and a perfect form to one's thought, this - and only this - is to be an artist.

If you have the ideas, and you're a creative person, then you don't really differentiate in how your ideas manifest themselves.

Artists are just children who refuse to put down their crayons.

Well, I'm an artist to the core. And my objective has always been to use my talents and my skills to elevate humanity through my art.

The artist is the medium between his fantasies and the rest of the world.