Canadian Quotes

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.

What are facts but compromises? A fact merely marks the point where we have agreed to let investigation cease.

There is a passion for perfection which you will rarely see fully developed; but you may note this fact, that in successful lives it is never wholly lacking.

Set me a task in which I can put something of my very self, and it is a task no longer; it is joy; it is art.

Indifference may not wreck a man's life at any one turn, but it will destroy him with a kind of dry-rot in the long run.

I often wish... that I could rid the world of the tyranny of facts. What are facts but compromises? A fact merely marks the point where we have agreed to let investigation cease.

My mother was a singer, and both of her sisters were singers. There was always music around.

My mother - the Irish side of the family - was very musical. My mother was a singer; there was music around the house all the time.

It's a joy to work where I live, and come home and sleep in my own bed.

I was an actor for over a year before I ever saw a play.

I was a boy soprano. I had a natural kind of voice and then trained it after my voice changed.

I pursued a theatre career, and Hollywood came calling.

I like to keep busy.

I grew up in Winnipeg, in the Canadian midwest, the fifth child. It was a great household to grow up in - I was loved to sweet death.

I didn't have to do paper routes. I'd sing for 5 bucks a crack at weddings and church functions; I'd have four or five on some Saturdays.

For my first acting job I played the role of Ensign Pulver in 'Mr. Roberts' at the Manitoba Theatre Centre.

You can escape into a character.