Sometimes, indeed often, we work on a theme with an unformed idea, and, when it has passed through the process, its final result is something we could never have predicted when we commenced. — Lawren Harris Copy Share Image
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… — 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
