"You can't get along without a knowledge of the principles and rules governing the influence of one c..." — Winslow Homer

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.

It is certainly a most tremendous and unprecedented honor and distinction that I have received from Pittsburgh. Let us hope that it is not too late in my case to be of value to American art in something that I may yet possibly do from this encouragement.

You will see - in the future, I will live by my watercolors.

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.