Lawren Harris

Art is the distillate of life, the winnowed result of the experience of a people, the record of the joyous adventure of…

— Lawren Harris

Are we taking the drunken drivers off the road only to turn them into drunken pedestrians?

— Lawren Harris

The truth is that works of art test the spectator much more than the spectator tests them.

— Lawren Harris

So long as painting deals with objective nature, it is an impure art, for recognizability precludes the highest aesthetic emotion. All painting,…

— Lawren Harris

Art is the beginning of vision into the realm of eternal life.

— Lawren Harris

Through our own creative experience we came to know that the real tradition in art is not housed only in museums and…

— Lawren Harris

If we view a great mountain soaring into the sky, it may excite us, evoke an uplifted feeling within us. There is…

— Lawren Harris

Experiences, much more than instruction, are a seeing with the inner eye - finding a channel to our essential inner life, a…

— Lawren Harris

Of course there must be the urge, the indefinable longing to get something through into terms of plastic presentation, but results are…

— Lawren Harris

The thought of today cannot be expressed in the language of yesterday.

— Lawren Harris

For the arts epitomize, intensify and clarify the experience of beauty for us as nothing else can.

— Lawren Harris

Art must take to the road and risk all for the glory of adventure.

— Lawren Harris

Every work of art which really moves us is in some degree a revelation: it changes us.

— Lawren Harris

The power of beauty at work in man, as the artist has always known, is severe and exacting, and once evoked, will…

— Lawren Harris

Art is long. Life is short. A picture can become for us a highway between a particular thing and a universal feeling.

— Lawren Harris

Through our own creative experience we came to know that the real tradition in art is not housed only in museums and…

— Lawren Harris

I felt the strange brooding lonely presence of Nature fostering a new race, a new age, and as part of it, a…

— Lawren Harris

I myself incline to drift, to accept a lesser situation rather than strive for a greater, and yet, I know that character…

— Lawren Harris

In the inner place where true artists create there exists a pure child.

— Lawren Harris

It requires courage to face and to conquer the immense weight of inertia and the dead and dying traditions and sophistications that…

— Lawren Harris

Sometimes, indeed often, we work on a theme with an unformed idea, and, when it has passed through the process, its final…

— Lawren Harris

“No man can roan or inhabit the Canadian North without it affecting him, and the artist, because of his constant habit of…

— Lawren Harris

Visible nature is but a distorted reflection of a more perfect world and the creative individual viewing her is inspired to perceive…

— Lawren Harris

New material demands new methods, and new methods fling a challenge to old convention.

— Lawren Harris

Mind alone remains stable, and watches the chaos of phenomena, and knows that there is a plastic unity of existence - a…

— Lawren Harris