Got a new pup. He is half griffon. The other half is mistake.

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.

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

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

Oh, Spring! I want to go out and feel you and get inspiration. My old things seem dead. I want fresh contacts, more vital searching.

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.

Art being so much greater than ourselves, it will not give up once it has taken hold.