Art must take to the road and risk all for the glory of adventure.

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.

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 thought of today cannot be expressed in the language of yesterday.

She was cool— the whole world seemed to spin around her in smooth jazz.

A life of faith is an enduring sacred-existence.

I believe the more personally removed people are from a major financial event, the less it is to affect their appetite for risk.

Edwina always enjoyed a morning ride. Some mornings she rode the horse, and some mornings she rode the groom.

All I can say about life is, 'Oh God, enjoy it!'

I always tend to think of all of my shows as possibly my last show. I'm like a junior Springsteen, without the underbite.

I am a bit old-school.

I'm wearing clothes in my thoughts and dreams though. What am I wearing in yours?" she asked. "Me." Conversation between Mary Rose and Harrison in Julie Garwood's FOR THE ROSES

People don't change. People are who they are.

All good niggers, all the niggers who change the world, die in violence. They don't die in regular ways.