If you're going to lick the icing off somebody else's cake you won't be nourished and it won't do you any good,--or you might find the cake had caraway seeds and you hate them.

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.

Faith and beliefs are the common things in all religion, so God is the faith and the belief without exception.

He can transform the incapability in you to do what the capables, even together, cannot do.

I know if I was a woman I wouldnt want to be a member of an organization thats mostly men.

My favorite one to see is the metal bikini on men.

The colored folks been singing it and playing it just like I'm doin' now, man, for more years than I know. I got it from them.

I made friends during my presidency.

I'm absolutely convinced of that. Israel is the representative of the United States in that part of the world. Its policies are so integrated with American policies that they use the same language.

If you build a better mousetrap, Nature will build a better mouse.

He was blessed with an unconventional mind, which overcame his conventional middle-class upbringing.

Great careers are getting easier to find and audition for, but harder to keep.