Abstract art is a creative interplay between the conscious and the unconscious, with the conscious mind making all the final decisions and in control throughout.

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.

I have heard of you- a kind of revolutionary. Hard to be a revolutionary in the deadly museum business.

When you do your work happily, work will disappear.

I don't think I'd have been in such a hurry to reach adulthood if I'd known the whole thing was going to be ad-libbed.

The primordial sea indefatigably repeats the same words and casts up the same astonished beings on the same sea-shore.

A man who is willing to commit suicide has the initiative.

When writing poetry, it is not that produces a bright idea, but the bright idea that kindles the fire of.

Consumers of meat, eggs and dairy products might well ask what they are supporting. Do farmers care about anyone but themselves? Can't anyone see the cow for the cheese?

I have come to recognize evolution not only as an active process that I am experiencing at the time, but as something I can guide by the choices I make.

It is vital that our work be grounded in the evidence and thus accepted by the public.

I hope I shall never see the day when the Force of Right is deprived of the Right of Force.