And light has no weight, / Yet one is lifted on its flood, /Swept high, /Running up white-golden light-shafts, /As if one were as weightless as light itself - /All gold and white and light.

Art is long. Life is short. A picture can become for us a highway between a particular thing and a universal feeling.

In the inner place where true artists create there exists a pure child.

Every work of art which really moves us is in some degree a revelation: it changes us.

Art must take to the road and risk all for the glory of adventure.

We were told, quite seriously, that there never would be a Canadian art because we had no art tradition.

Art is the beginning of vision into the realm of eternal life.

The truth is that works of art test the spectator much more than the spectator tests them.

New material demands new methods, and new methods fling a challenge to old convention.

For the arts epitomize, intensify and clarify the experience of beauty for us as nothing else can.

The thought of today cannot be expressed in the language of yesterday.

You may be a poet and not even know it.

The real triumph of the state occurs when its subjects refer to it as “we, ” like football fans talking about the home team.

You're the sort of girl that should only have happiness, you know? Who should wake up smiling, feeling special because someone does everything they can to make that so.

Every man is working out his destiny in his own way and nobody can be of any help except by being kind, generous, and patient.

There is exchange of all things for fire and of fire for all things, as there is of wares for gold and of gold for wares.

It was all completely serious, all completely hallucinated, all completely happy.

I've been told I make a very good brew.

The drug of choice in the modern age is levity. We want everything to be light and bubbly. We just want to feel good.

Plastic surgery is one of the ways that people deal with the aging process. And I don't mean by using it as a form of denial, but as a kind of negotiation with it.

Spirituality and the secular world are not that far apart.