The truth is that works of art test the spectator much more than the spectator tests them.

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.

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.

Wynn picked up the note, unfolded it, and read aloud. "'Call Wynnie-the-Pooh. Out of salt. Important. Dig on Coleman, Garvey/CG Towers, Uncle Griffin. Paris. Bank for box.

I don't think anyone's past is ever truly gone. You carry every experience, good and bad, within you.

Read a different Africa. Love a vibrant Africa.

No character, however upright, is a match for constantly reiterated attacks, however false.

We're all a piece of the puzzle. It's a weird puzzle and it looks odd, but we all fit in it.

When I was growing up in the United States and Sweden, I never thought about becoming a politician.

The city and province were given up to anarchy; the coloured people, elated with victory, proclaimed the slaughter of all whites, except the English, French, and American residents.

I feel like there's this weird thing that as a feminist band you get put in this role as ambassadors.

Cease looking for flowers! There blooms a garden in your own home. While you look for trinkets The treasure house awaits you in your own being.

There is nothing like fun, is there? I haven't any myself, but I do like it in others.