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

What a splendid time Woo must have had.

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

Go out there into the glory of the woods. See God in every particle of them expressing glory and strength and power, tenderness and protection. Know that they are God expressing God made manifest.

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.

Twenty can't be expected to tolerate sixty in all things, and sixty gets bored stiff with twenty's eternal love affairs.

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