Flood Quote by Lawren Harris

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

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, ancient or…

— 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 art galleries…

— Lawren Harris

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

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

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

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