Writing is a strong easement for perplexity. My life is a map, spread out with all the rivers and hills showing.

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.

A business needs a character and an identity, just like a person and just like a person it needs to have a Voice.

A successful man is one who makes more money than his wife can spend. A successful woman is one who can find such a man.

If you're going to draw a comic strip every day, you're going to have to draw on every experience in your life.

You can’t bounce off the walls If there are no walls: outdoor schools make kids happier—and smarter

People often think that they are eating really healthy when all the food they are eating is genetically modified. So nothing genetically modified, only real food, grains, brown rice.

From one Soul of the Universe are all Souls derived.

I can't understand it. I can't even understand the people who can understand it.

Opera is for a lifetime, not just a minute.

People make a lot of jokes about the empty nest. Let me tell you, it is no laughing matter. It is really hard.

Resolve to treat the things in your possession as belonging to others.