If you're going to lick the icing off somebody else's cake you won't be nourished and it won't do you any good,--or you might find the cake had caraway seeds and you hate them.

You always feel when you look it straight in the eye that you could have put more into it, could have let yourself go and dug harder.

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.

Perfectly ordered disorder designed with a helter-skelter magnificence.

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

As the woods are the same, the trees standing in their places, the rocks and the earth... they are always different too, as lights and shadows and seasons and moods pass through them.

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