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

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.

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

The artist himself may not think he is religious, but if he is sincere his sincerity in itself is religion.

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.

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.