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.

I made myself into an envelope into which I could thrust my work deep, lick the flap, seal it from everybody.

There is no right and wrong way to paint except honestly or dishonestly. Honestly is trying for the bigger thing. Dishonestly is bluffing and getting through a smattering of surface representation with no meaning.

There is something bigger than fact: the underlying spirit, all it stands for, the mood, the vastness, the wildness.

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

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

Perfectly ordered disorder designed with a helter-skelter magnificence.