real art is religion, a search for the beauty of God deep in all things.

It is wonderful to feel the grandness of Canada in the raw, not because she is Canada but because she's something sublime that you were born into, some great rugged power that you are a part of.

Art is art, nature is nature, you cannot improve upon it.... Pictures should be inspired by nature, but made in the soul of the artist. It is the soul of the individual that counts.

Do not try to do extraordinary things but do ordinary things with intensity.

You must be absolutely honest and true in the depicting of a totem for meaning is attached to every line. You must be most particular about detail and proportion.

It is wonderful to feel the grandness of Canada in the raw.

I think that one's art is a growth inside one. I do not think one can explain growth. It is silent and subtle. One does not keep digging up a plant to see how it grows.

There is something bigger than fact: the underlying spirit, all it stands for, the mood, the vastness, the wildness.

You come into the world alone and you go out of the world alone yet it seems to me you are more alone while living than even going and coming.

The liveness in me just loves to feel the liveness in growing things, in grass and rain and leaves and flowers and sun and feathers and furs and earth and sand and moss.

So still were the big woods where I sat, sound might not yet have been born.

In a dark time, the eye begins to see.

Hope ... is not a feeling it is something you do.

We know we cannot achieve our twin goals of ending poverty and boosting shared prosperity without ending poverty and creating equality for women and girls.

There is no more lovely, friendly and charming relationship, communion or company than a good marriage.

You can't hammer tin into iron, no matter how hard you beat it, but that doesn't mean it's useless.

It is pretty hard to tell what does bring happiness; poverty and wealth have both failed.

I'm not trying to prove how Mexican I am or how American I am. I'm proud to be both.

It's an exciting time, when you can make your movie on a cellphone. If it's good, it WILL get noticed.

Nothing in life comes easy. Everything comes with a sacrifice

We need realism to deal with reality.