If the function of the artist is to see, the first duty of the critic is to understand what the artist saw. — J. E. H. MacDonald Copy Share Image
It is the work of the Canadian artist to paint or play or write in such a way that life will be enlarged for himself and his fellow man. The painter will look around him . . . and finding… — J. E. H. MacDonald Copy Share Image
I have memories of the clearest crystal mountain days imaginable, when we fortunates in the height seemed to be sky people living in light… — J. E. H. MacDonald Copy Share Image
If the function of the artist is to see, the first duty of the critic is to understand what the artist saw. — J. E. H. MacDonald Copy Share Image
Snow and reflections were beautiful but transient effects and other difficulties were beyond me. — J. E. H. MacDonald Copy Share Image
Made a sketch later on the cabin verandah, but it was impossible to keep up with the changes. Oh the difficulties of mountain art… — J. E. H. MacDonald Copy Share Image
It is the work of the Canadian artist to paint or play or write in such a way that life will be enlarged for… — J. E. H. MacDonald Copy Share Image
One felt that the mountains are not completed. The builders are still at work. Stones come rolling and jumping from the upper scaffolding and… — J. E. H. MacDonald Copy Share Image
To paint from nature is to realize one's sensations, not to copy what is before one. — J. E. H. MacDonald Copy Share Image
