I made myself into an envelope into which I could thrust my work deep, lick the flap, seal it from everybody.

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.

They were once fairies and elves. Now they are creatures from beyond the stars because you no longer believe in anything but humans.

I think they are a better race than humans ever were.

It is impossible for any Sherlock Holmes story not to have at least one marvelous

Yandex originated from a company called Arkadia, which created two search programs under the DOS operating system in 1990.

I could still walk the street. I don't have to have no massive security.

They tell you to be careful because maybe you don't want to meet your heroes. I've met pretty much every one, and I've never been let down.

I think it's this congenital problem with journalism that we oversell the difference we make. We make small differences.

Truth uttered before its time is dangerous.

I'm a big-time Fabolous fan. He's my favorite rapper ever. I hope to meet him one day.

I like the idea of exercising, but I never do.