Artist Quotes

An Indian's dress of deer skins, which is wet a hundred times upon his back, dries soft; and his lodge also, which stands in the rains, and even through the severity of winter, is taken down as soft and as clean as when it was first put up.

Why do people so love to wander? I think the civilized parts of the World will suffice for me in the future.

I used to go and flatten my nose against that window and absorb all I could of his art. It changed my life. I saw art then as I wanted to see it.

I think that if you shake the tree, you ought to be around when the fruit falls to pick it up.

Sentimentality is a form of fatigue.

You must be absolutely honest and true in the depicting of a totem for meaning is attached to every line. You must be most particular about detail and proportion.

You always feel when you look it straight in the eye that you could have put more into it, could have let yourself go and dug harder.

There is something bigger than fact: the underlying spirit, all it stands for, the mood, the vastness, the wildness.

The men resent a woman getting any honour in what they consider is essentially their field. Men painters mostly despise women painters. So I have decided to stop squirming, to throw any honour in with Canada and women.

The artist himself may not think he is religious, but if he is sincere his sincerity in itself is religion.

Perfectly ordered disorder designed with a helter-skelter magnificence.

Oh, Spring! I want to go out and feel you and get inspiration. My old things seem dead. I want fresh contacts, more vital searching.

It is wonderful to feel the grandness of Canada in the raw.

I sat staring, staring, staring - half lost, learning a new language or rather the same language in a different dialect. So still were the big woods where I sat, sound might not yet have been born.

Be careful that you do not write or paint anything that is not your own, that you don't know in your own soul.

Trees love to toss and sway; they make such happy noises.

Twenty can't be expected to tolerate sixty in all things, and sixty gets bored stiff with twenty's eternal love affairs.

You will have to experiment and try things out for yourself and you will not be sure of what you are doing. That's all right, you are feeling your way into the thing.

Life's an awfully lonesome affair. You come into the world alone and you go out of the world alone yet it seems to me you are more alone while living than even going and coming.

I think that one's art is a growth inside one. I do not think one can explain growth. It is silent and subtle. One does not keep digging up a plant to see how it grows.

You come into the world alone and you go out of the world alone yet it seems to me you are more alone while living than even going and coming.

Well, I am a lot like my dad, and the character of Ted is based on my dad.

We're going to have the same demographic spread of nutcases and the same spread of everybody in between.

We live in a society that blames everybody else for what's wrong.

We all have our pet things that we like to get religious about.

These censorship people think something is going to promote behavior in people.

The second we see somebody on the street or meet someone, we make snap judgments about them, about who they are and why we wouldn't necessarily sit with them or why we would or what's cool or not cool.

That's not so important to me, that time thing.

People get really caught up in their own trips.

People are going to behave however the social norms permit, and beyond that.