Art is an aspect of God and there is only one God, but different people see Him in different ways. Though He is always the same He doesn't always look the same.

It is wonderful to feel the grandness of Canada in the raw, not because she is Canada but because she's something sublime that you were born into, some great rugged power that you are a part of.

Art is art, nature is nature, you cannot improve upon it.... Pictures should be inspired by nature, but made in the soul of the artist. It is the soul of the individual that counts.

Do not try to do extraordinary things but do ordinary things with intensity.

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.

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

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.

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

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.

The liveness in me just loves to feel the liveness in growing things, in grass and rain and leaves and flowers and sun and feathers and furs and earth and sand and moss.

So still were the big woods where I sat, sound might not yet have been born.

We are supposed to call poison medicine and we wonder why we're always sick.

I would have followed you to hell and back... if only you'd lead me back.

Whatever you is, Onion, " he said, "be it full.

There is a cost to loving anything, or anyone. No one tells you that when you are young.

Another word for corruption is injustice.

Habit is a great deadener.

Content is not the pathway to great deeds.

The mayfly lives only one day. And sometimes it rains.

Color deceives continuously.

I regret that I wasn't the kind of person who could enjoy celebrity. It embarrassed me too much.