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

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.

Each minute wasted with a shark is a missed opportunity to enjoy being with a Dolphin

You should have trusted me. I'm really tired of people not trusting me.

Another purpose for speaking in tongues is the edification of the church.

Shut your mouth - there's a bus coming.

...an' there never yet was speculation but in the long run, it meant smash. Ye run so hard that ye fall ower yoursel

Maturity isn't a product of growing older. It's a product of growing wiser.

The Pantheon was the first church I'd ever seen that had an open view to God

My body is the only thing that’s truly mine, so I don’t give it away as though it’s worthless.

Donald Trump agreed with Hillary Clinton supporting John Kerry. He agreed with Hillary Clinton on being - quote - "neutral" between Israel and the Palestinians.

You have to really believe not only in yourself; you have to believe that the world is actually worth your sacrifices.