People ask me how long it took to make a work. I reply by giving them my age.

Works of art are landscapes of the mind.

My current works are abstracts cunningly disguised as landscapes. It is the Canadian way.

A painting is finished when to have done less would be considered a sin and more a crime.

The only thing you have to fear more than failure is success.

When you are rich, your past disappears. You get everything you want when you want it . . . Everyone wants to know you. Everyone wants to be your friend.

If ever asked to look at yourself, don't.

This world can only give me reminders of what I don't have, can never have, didn't have for long enough.

The law and medicine should be very serious professions to undertake, should they not? People's lives and fortunes depend on them.

Like the railroads that brought us together in the 19th century, these trails will bring us together in the 20th and 21st centuries. (at launch of the National Millennium Trails Program, 1999)

Rage is ... This is Breslin's full quote: Rage is the only quality which has kept me, or anybody I have ever studied, writing columns for newspapers

The point is to make the pie grow faster and distribute the new growth more equitably.

So many of these comics are just frustrated singers or actors - they want to get a gig doing a sitcom. It's paint-by-the-numbers comedy, lame joke-telling. They're drawn to it as a career move.

Love has no limits. Compassion has no party. It is the responsibility of every human being and every institution to end poverty and to interrupt injustice.

I look through the grave into heaven.