Perfectly ordered disorder designed with a helter-skelter magnificence.

The biggest part of painting perhaps is faith, and waiting receptively, content to go any way, not planning or forcing. The fear, though, is laziness. It is so easy to drift and finally be tossed up on the beach, derelict.

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

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

enter into the life of the trees. Know your relationship and understand their language, unspoken, unwritten talk. Answer back to them with their own dumb magnificence, soul words, earth words, the God in you responding to the God in them.

You must be absolutely honest and true in the depicting of a totem for meaning is attached to every line. You must be most particular about detail and proportion.

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