My influences were from Europe from between 1900 and 1945. My favorite artists were Egon Schiele or Edvard Munch. I wasn't interested in contemporary art at all.

Art is like a lover whom you run away from but who comes back and picks you up.

There should be something revelatory about art. It should be totally creative and open doors for new thoughts and experiences.

It's my memory, and what happened between that moment 10 or 15 years ago and now, there's a lot of gray area

Most people don't do something seminal. I've done it twice: with my tent and my bed. Picasso did it with Cubism.

When it comes to words I have a uniqueness that I find almost impossible in art – and it's my words that actually make my art quite unique.

What's really good about the word 'art' is that 'art' is a word like 'love,' or 'god,' or whatever. It transcends so many things.

What is truth? Truth doesn't really exist. Who is going to judge whether my experience of an incident is more valid than yours? No one can be trusted to be the judge of that.

The words went round and round and round in my mind and my body, until I knew they were no longer my words but something that had been carved into my heart. And now my soul was crying.

There is nothing difficult about my work, and people get to hear it from me.

I feel physically ill if I don't make work, I don't create. I don't feel very good. I don't feel right, I feel wrong.

An hypocrite with his mouth destroyeth his neighbour: but through knowledge shall the just be delivered.

I hold this to be the highest task of a bond between two people: that each should stand guard over the solitude of the other.

The innocence of a child is an astounding quality which if not withered away as they grow can spread love and happiness everywhere

Love can either be your greatest companion or your worst enemy, depending on your pride to accept or deny things.

A garden should be natural-seeming, with wild sections, including a large area of bluebells.

You've got to learn to accept the law of life, and face the fact that we disintegrate slowly.

If you're any kind of artist, you've got to ... keep opening yourself to new possibilities.

On a craggy bluff above the majestic Ottawa River stands the remarkable embodiment of our system of governance: Parliament.

Every day is different, and some days are better than others, but no matter how challenging the day, I get up and live it.

In every enterprise consider where you would come out.