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

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.

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.

As the woods are the same, the trees standing in their places, the rocks and the earth... they are always different too, as lights and shadows and seasons and moods pass through them.

The sweeter the fruit a tree bears the greater the number of birds that eat from it.

I will rather be poor doing what I love, than to be rich hating what I do.

Every opportunity worth pursuing comes with a price tag. Either sweat or sacrifice. Sometimes both.

If I am building a mountain and stop before the last basketful of earth is placed on the summit, I have failed.

You can't just pick people for their hair color or the shape of their face. You have to go with the best actors.

He who would be useful, strong, and happy must cease to be a passive receptacle for the negative, beggarly, and impure streams of thought.

I vill now destroy the snickuh bahrs!

Hillary Clinton says one thing herself, but she has other people who are floating her plans.

You don't have to transcend something that you have no interest in... it may come but it finds no food.

The amazing thing about love is that it is the best way to get to know ourselves.