Oh I do want that thing, that oneness of movement that will catch the thing up into one movement and sing - harmony of life.

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.

Once we know something, we find it hard to imagine what it was like not to know it.

Don't be afraid to go after what you want to do and what you want to be, and don't be afraid to pay the price to get it.

we all get waves of regret sometimesbut instead of dwelling on what you can’t change, start focusing on what you can.

People took what they wanted, they clutched at coincidences, the few there were, and made a life from them. . . . Choices are made in brief seconds and paid for in the time that remains.

Entrepreneurship: you put one dumb foot in front of the other while the world throws bricks at your head.

I know what my job is. I know what I've got to do. I've got to keep getting better.

I will not say that women have no character; rather, they have a new one every day.

The Commission on Presidential Debates must be replaced if we want to have a democracy in this country.

Sometimes tears are the glasses that we need to see Jesus.

You do not install knowledge.