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… — 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… — 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… — Lawren Harris Copy Share Image
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… — Lawren Harris Copy Share Image
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
Every work of art which really moves us is in some degree a revelation: it changes us. — Lawren Harris Copy Share Image
The power of beauty at work in man, as the artist has always known, is severe and exacting, and once evoked, will never leave… — Lawren Harris Copy Share Image
Art is long. Life is short. A picture can become for us a highway between a particular thing and a universal feeling. — Lawren Harris Copy Share Image
