I don't suppose you do know precisely what you are after. I don't think in the creative process anyone quite knows. They have a vague idea - a beckoning, an inkling of some truth - it is only in the… — Lawren Harris Copy Share Image
Art is the distillate of life, the winnowed result of the experience of a people, the record of the joyous adventure of the creative spirit in us toward a higher world; a world in which all ideas, thoughts, and forms are pure and beautiful and completely clear, the world Plato held to be perfect and eternal. All works that have… — Lawren Harris Copy Share
Are we taking the drunken drivers off the road only to turn them into drunken pedestrians? — Lawren Harris Copy Share Image
The truth is that works of art test the spectator much more than the spectator tests them. — Lawren Harris Copy Share Image
So long as painting deals with objective nature, it is an impure art, for recognizability precludes the highest aesthetic emotion. All painting, ancient or… — Lawren Harris Copy Share Image
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… — Lawren Harris Copy Share
If we view a great mountain soaring into the sky, it may excite us, evoke an uplifted feeling within us. There is an interplay… — Lawren Harris Copy Share Image
Experiences, much more than instruction, are a seeing with the inner eye - finding a channel to our essential inner life, a door to… — Lawren Harris Copy Share Image
Of course there must be the urge, the indefinable longing to get something through into terms of plastic presentation, but results are nearly always… — Lawren Harris Copy Share Image
The thought of today cannot be expressed in the language of yesterday. — Lawren Harris Copy Share Image
For the arts epitomize, intensify and clarify the experience of beauty for us as nothing else can. — Lawren Harris Copy Share Image
