The men resent a woman getting any honour in what they consider is essentially their field. Men painters mostly despise women painters. So I have decided to stop squirming, to throw any honour in with Canada and women.

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

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.

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.

What a splendid time Woo must have had.

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.

Inspiration is intention obeyed.