Sometimes, indeed often, we work on a theme with an unformed idea, and, when it has passed through the process, its final result is something we could never have predicted when we commenced.

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.

No iron can pierce the human heart as chillingly as a full stop placed at the right time.

The feel of the sticky wetness down there when she moved made her grimace. God, she wanted to get cleaned up. In a hurry.

Even in the valley of the shadow of death, two and two do not make six.

Fear is something that can really hold us all back from different things in life. It's important to notice what your fears are and try to conquer them.

I like to be in my birthday suit as much as possible.

Compassion, forgiveness, these are the real, ultimate sources of power for peace and success in life

Everything depends on your state of awareness. If your state of awareness is low, then all the material success in the world won't help.

I was in constant demand, in my professional life and my personal life.

Americans have discovered fear.

Maybe our Earth is totally alone in the universe.