“Canada has no cultural unity no linguistic unity no religious unity no economic unity no geographic unity. All it has is unity.”

“Nothing fails like success because we don't learn from it. We learn only from failure.”

“In any evolutionary process even in the arts the search for novelty becomes corrupting.”

“Canada has no cultural unity no linguistic unity no religious unity no economic unity no geographic unity. All it has is unity.”

“We are not sent into this world to walk it in solitude. We are born to love, as we are born to breathe and eat and drink. The babe is hardly separated from his mother’s womb before he stretches out...”

“The ultimate causes of price - to use a Classical term - lie deeply embedded in the psychology and techniques of mankind and his environment, and are as manifold as the sands of the sea. All econom...”

“To create art with all the passion in one's soul is to live art with all the beauty in one's heart.”

“art is risk made visible”

“Eleanor was right. She never looked nice. She looked like art, and art wasn't supposed to look nice; it was supposed to make you feel something.”

“The best incentive for an artist are the harshest criticism”

“I have no idea how to be an artist and a lover, so I chose the one most likely to make me happy when I'm eighty and gazing back on a long and productive life.”

“Artists strive to free this true and spontaneous self in their work. Creativity, meditation are ways of freeing an inner voice.”