Faith must become more than a verbal proclamation or an intellectual assent. True faith must be acted out.
Art must take to the road and risk all for the glory of adventure.
Art is long. Life is short. A picture can become for us a highway between a particular thing and a universal feeling.
In the inner place where true artists create there exists a pure child.
Every work of art which really moves us is in some degree a revelation: it changes us.
We were told, quite seriously, that there never would be a Canadian art because we had no art tradition.
Through our own creative experience we came to know that the real tradition in art is not housed only in museums and art galleries and in great works of art; it is innate in us and can be galvanized into activity by the power of creative endeavor in our own day, and in our own country, by our own creative individuals in the arts. We also came to realize that we in Canada cannot truly understand the great cultures of the past and of other peoples, until we ourselves commence our own creative life in the arts. Until we do so, we are looking at these from the outside.
Life for me these days is a lot about letting the unknown be wonderful.
This fighting-shy of every obligation partly explains the phenomenon, half ridiculous, half disgraceful, Of the setting-up in our days of the platform of "youth" as youth. . . . In comic fashion people call themselves "young," because they have heard that youth has more rights than obligations, since it can put off the fulfilment of these latter to the Greek Kalends of maturity. . . . [T]he astounding thing at present is that these take it as an effective right precisely in order to claim for themselves all those other rights which only belong to the man who has already done something.
In the tale proper--where there is no space for development of character or for great profusion and variety of incident--mere construction is, of course, far more imperatively demanded than in the novel.
Sometimes along the way in my life I don't want a smart woman right now, I want a dumb woman. But then you think, 'That doesn't work, now I want a smart woman. ' Then you get a smart woman and you go, 'No, that doesn't work. ' So it's just killing me right now.