"Sometimes, indeed often, we work on a theme……" — Lawren Harris
"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."
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30 Quotes by Lawren Harris
Lawren Harris has 30 quotes on this site.
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Art must take to the road and risk all for the glory of adventure.
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Every work of art which really moves us is in some degree a revelation: it changes us.
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Art is the beginning of vision into the realm of eternal life.
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Art is long. Life is short. A picture can become for us a highway between a particular thing and a…
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Through our own creative experience we came to know that the real tradition in art is not housed only in…
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Abstract art is a creative interplay between the conscious and the unconscious, with the conscious mind making all the final…
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Beauty is a living abiding presence completely untouchable by all the devices of man, such as moral codes, creeds, intellectual…
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For the arts epitomize, intensify and clarify the experience of beauty for us as nothing else can.
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The power of beauty at work in man, as the artist has always known, is severe and exacting, and once…
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Mind alone remains stable, and watches the chaos of phenomena, and knows that there is a plastic unity of existence…
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I myself incline to drift, to accept a lesser situation rather than strive for a greater, and yet, I know…
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It requires a conviction that every people has a unique contribution to give to mankind, and that this they must…
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More Commenced Quotes
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The age of ignorance commenced with the Christian system.
— Thomas Paine
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We are the creatures of imagination, passion, and self-will, more than of reason or even of self-interest. Even in the…
— William Hazlitt
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Man, whose organization is regarded as the highest, departs from the vertebrate archetype; and it is because the study of…
— Charles Lyell
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When news of the surrender first reached our lines our men commenced firing a salute of a hundred guns in…
— Ulysses S. Grant
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Great revolutions, whatever may be their causes, are not lightly commenced, and are not concluded with precipitation.
— Benjamin Disraeli
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There is but One God, His name is Truth, He is the Creator, He fears none, he is without hate,…
— Guru Nanak
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Opposition to God and His Christ, opposition to light and truth has existed since the beginning to the present day.…
— Wilford Woodruff
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A lean, loose-jointed Negro had commenced plunking a guitar beside me while I slept. His clothes were rags; his feet…
— William Christopher Handy
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Now we see how the astronomical evidence supports the biblical view of the origin of the world. The details differ,…
— Robert Jastrow
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Mathematics as a science, commenced when first someone, probably a Greek, proved propositions about "any" things or about "some" things,…
— Alfred North Whitehead
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My combat action has commenced... I've pissed my pants, but only a little.
— Anthony Swofford
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I have commenced my auspicious reign and am in quiet possession of the Presidential Mansion... this winter I intend to…
— Unknown Author
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