In the inner place where true artists create there exists a pure child.

Art is long. Life is short. A picture can become for us a highway between a particular thing and a universal feeling.

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.

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.

Anyone can be a businessman

We have the ability to craft a life where we are completely fulfilled. We think it is dependent on outsiders, and to some extent it is, but it is much more dependent on the attitude we bring to life.

I suppose there is a lot of toughness in me.

Give Mozart a fairy tale and he creates without effort an immortal masterpiece.

He Who Knows And Knows That He Knows Is A Wise Man - Follow Him; He Who Knows Not And Knows Not That He Knows Not Is A Fool - Shun Him

Enough. These few words are enough If not these few words, this breath If not this breath, this sitting here This opening to the life we have refused again and again Until now Until now.

I also love real estate and decorating.

I never say what I mean, but I always manage to say something similar.

For goodness sake, look at those cakes.

I decide to do what I always do when I'm not sure what's going on: I act like everyone else.