I was not ready for abstraction. I clung to earth and her dear shapes, her density, her herbage, her juice. I wanted her volume, and I wanted to hear her throb.

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.

All I am saying is that you should begin to see greatness as something you cannot do without. Begin to see greatness as something that you cannot afford not to have.

You are here to remind me of someone I long for, and what is it you long for yourself? We must have been together in an earlier life, you and I.

Tell the truth as you understand it. If you're a writer, you have a moral obligation to do this. And it is a revolutionary act - truth is always subversive.

Business is full of complexities. That's what makes it so interesting. Anyone who thinks it's boring hasn't given it much thought.

I realized the secret to success is finishing! And not just finishing, but finishing strong!

It was just as shocking for me to sing opera in a falsetto soprano in Germany.

Channeling my inner bohemian in a maxi print skirt and textured denim jacket.

"We speak different languages, as usual," responded Woland, "but this does not change the things we speak about. Well?..."

What is clear is that consumers know a calorie isn't a calorie. There are good fats and bad fats and good proteins and bad ones.

I'm not vouching for Putin's character, he seems like a shady guy. Hard to see why he's a threat was.