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

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.

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.

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.

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.

Women's bodies do not give up their babies so easily, and so silently, is the message. The heart will always remember.

Well, I can throw a mean comeback, so there's that. I will crush them on wit.

I refuse to give in to the notion that the American people can't handle complicated information.

Stock market risk is ok, but not for Social Security.

I am the source of my own suffering, because of the habits of my mind.

You put the tea in the kettle and light it. Put your hand on the metal and feel it.. but do you even feel it anymore?

We cannot rely upon the silenced to tell us they are suffering.

I'm concealing a lot of things. That's what a lady does.

Nice, nice, very nice.

If you pay attention to the world, it’s an amazing place. If you don’t, it’s whatever you think it is.