Of course there must be the urge, the indefinable longing to get something through into terms of plastic presentation, but results are nearly always unpredictable. — Lawren Harris Copy Share Image
Mind alone remains stable, and watches the chaos of phenomena, and knows that there is a plastic unity of existence - a changeless harmony - behind the everchanging. — 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
