"Never put more than two waves in a picture; it's fussy."

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Source : Winslow Homer, Lloyd Goodrich, Whitney Museum of American Art (1973). “Winslow Homer”

Winslow Homer

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“I've never been difficult to anybody or with anybody on a picture. Especially when you're in that nice status of hierarchy of actors and actresses who get to approve directors. Because once you make that choice, it's my belief that the director's boss.”
“You know, I think I had a great career; there's not much I think I'd do different other than get a title shot much earlier. I didn't get one till 49 or 50 fights into my career.”
“Life is essentially a series of events to be lived through rather than intellectual riddles to be played with and solved.”
“I have a very pop voice, but there's so much of me I associate mostly with urban music, so I try to blend the two.”
“Hateful to me as are the gates of hell, Is he who, hiding one thing in his heart, Utters another.”

Source : Homer (1871). “The Iliad of Homer”, p.234
“I would that with sleepy, soft embraces The sea would fold mewould find me rest In luminous shades of her secret places, In depths where her marvels are manifest; So the earth beneath her should not discover My hidden couchnor the heaven above her As a strong love shielding a weary lover, I would have her shield me with shining breast.”

Source : The Swimmer', stanza 5, collected in Bush Ballads and Galloping Rhymes (1870).
“I like to stuff myself at Thanksgiving, not turkeys.”
“I would advise my young colleagues, the composers of symphonies, to drop in sometimes at the kindergarten, too. It is there that it is decided whether there will be anybody to understand their works in twenty years time.”

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