After being an Impressionist, Cubist, and an Abstract Expressionist, I was influenced by realistic artists, including Andrew Wyeth in the late '50s, and I haven't changed my style since.

If you find yourself worrying, go outside, take three breaths, address a tree and quietly say, 'Thank you.' If you can't find a tree, a dandelion will do... Nature is magic.

I never thought that I would support myself with art - everyone in the Group of Seven had day jobs. I became a geography teacher so that I could get free field trips into the wilderness to paint.

To me the most important thing in a piece of art is the thought. Technique is totally secondary.

I've never thought sitting around worrying helps anything, except to help shorten your life.

I got serious about painting at 12, when most people give up.

It doesn't take more skill to paint hundreds of strokes rather than one right stroke but it takes more patience.

If I ever have a conflict between art and nature, I let art win.

The most important question facing the planet is: Is it worth it?

Nature is not a free lunch, but we treat it as a free lunch.

In our instant pudding world, everything is sweet, smooth, very convenient and fast. There are lots of assorted flavors, but they're all artificial.

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A guest sees more in an hour than the host in a year.

I believe in mysticism, with an interior goal, and you are your own temple and your own priest.

They have stopped deceiving you, not loving you. And it seems to you that they have stopped loving you.

Only the absolutely determined people succeed.

Everybody needs beauty as well as bread.

I'm happiest when I'm just hanging out with my friends... it really doesn't matter what we do.

the sea is a collector, quick to return a rapacious look.

I think myself obliged, whatever my private apprehensions may be of the success, to do my duty, and leave events to their Disposer.