"Through our own creative experience we came to……" — 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 and in great works of art; it is innate in us and can be galvanized into activity by the power of creative endeavor in our own day, and in our own country, by our own creative individuals in the arts. We also came to realize that we in Canada cannot truly understand the great cultures of the past and of other peoples, until we ourselves commence our own creative life in the arts. Until we do so, we are looking at these from the outside."
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30 Quotes by Lawren Harris
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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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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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It requires courage to face and to conquer the immense weight of inertia and the dead and dying traditions and…
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I don't think of poetry as a 'rational' activity but as an aural one. My poems usually begin with words…
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Snowboarding is an activity that is very popular with people who do not feel that regular skiing is lethal enough.
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To make an activity joyful, keep adding things until the activity as a whole becomes more appealing than repulsing.
— Martha Beck
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If you think squash is a competitive activity, try flower arranging.
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The activity of a singer that sings opera is similar to that of an athlete.
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The individual activity of one man with backbone will do more than a thousand men with a mere wishbone.
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Humor is by far the most significant activity of the human brain.
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Reading is an activity subsequent to writing: more resigned, more civil, more intellectual.
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I'm just trying to spread the word and upturn the myth that actually you should be resting after cancer treatment.…
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Dissent is the native activity of the scientist, and it has got him into a good deal of trouble in…
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Where I grew up, in Des Moines, Iowa, there is hardly any downtown economic activity now. Everybody shops in malls…
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