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

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.

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.

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

Age focuses you. You are much better concentrated. There's more time when you travel less, don't do book tours, avoid interviews or public appearances. You walk the dogs, fish, hunt, cook and write.

Is there not a certain satisfaction in the fact that natural limits are set to the life of the individual, so that at the conclusion it may appear as a work of art?

As a dad, it's kind of exciting to see that your son follows what you believe in so strongly.

According to the international organization for migration, more than 1 million migrants have arrived in Europe this year, the most since World War II. Half of them were Syrian.

Whenever I hear, 'It can't be done,' I know I'm close to success.

What is technology?... It's another god.

If I don't paint for one day, I don't feel well physically or mentally.

The essence of greatness is the ability to choose personal fulfillment in circumstances where others choose madness.