(Ars longa vita brevis.) Art is long life is short. A picture can become for us a highway between a particular thing and a universal feeling.

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.

The world is to be carried forward by truth, which at first offends, which wins its way by degrees, which the many hate and would rejoice to crush.

It's a terrible thing for a man when his woman gangs up on him wi' a toad

You spend your whole life trying to get known and then you spend the rest of it hiding in the toilet.

Men make love more intensely at 20, but make love better, however, at 30.

Don't let your want for perfection become procrastination

No reporter is flying around in borrowed twin-engine airplanes.

There's nothing in the world for which a poet will give up writing, not even he is a Jew and the language of his poems is German.

Greatness is a property for which no man gets credit too soon; it must be possessed long before it is acknowledged.

Religion, if in heavenly truths attired, Needs only to be seen to be admired.

A man may fish with the worm that hath eat of a king, and eat of the fish that hath fed of that worm