Let me not fuss and fret at my incompetence but be still and know that Thou art God.

real art is religion, a search for the beauty of God deep in all things.

Be careful that you do not write or paint anything that is not your own, that you don't know in your own soul.

I am always watching for fear of getting feeble and passé in my work. I don't want to trickle out. I want to pour till the pail is empty, the last bit going out in a gush, not in drops.

It is wonderful to feel the grandness of Canada in the raw.

Cedars are terribly sensitive to change of time and light - sometimes they are bluish cold-green, then they turn yellow warm-green - sometimes their boughs flop heavy and sometimes float, then they are fairy as ferns and then they droop, heavy as heartaches.

Do not try to do extraordinary things but do ordinary things with intensity.