Of course there must be the urge, the indefinable longing to get something through into terms of plastic presentation, but results are nearly always unpredictable.

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

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

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.

What we find in books is like the fire in our hearths. We fetch it from our neighbors, we kindle it at home, we communicate it to others, and it becomes the property of all.

Never knew the word Goodbye could scatter my heart into pieces. Just 1 word, could made me cry over you.

I did stories about unexpected encounters, back roads, small towns and ordinary folk, sometimes doing something a little extraordinary.

I don't think there was a particular book that made me want to write. They all did. I always wanted to write.

I still don't know if I can write songs. I don't think anyone ever knows if they can write songs.

I would love to be on Broadway!

I know that each one of us travels to love alone, alone to faith and to death. I know it. I've tried it. It doesn't help. Let me come with you.

The advantage of being eighty years old is that one has many people to love.

Don't ask permission to be happy. Don't beg for forgiveness. Just do it.

I'm a little concerned about this notion everybody wants us to be objective.