Occupation: Painter Birth: October 3, 1882 Death: April 5, 1974
Artists are often excellent businessmen. They have to be. Otherwise they do not remain artists..
To Lawren Harris art was almost a mission. He believed that a country which ignored the arts left no record of itself worth preserving..
Not knowing all of the conventions of beauty, he [Tom Thomson] found it all beautiful..
The obedient in art are always the forgotten . . . The country is glorious but its beauties are unknown, and but waiting for a real live artist to sp….
Those who follow are always behind..
It's probably hard for anyone looking at my landscapes today to realize that I was once regarded as a rebel, a dangerous influence; that I've been to….
What to paint was a problem for the war artist... the old heroics, the death and glory stuff, were gone forever... the impressionistic technique I ha….
Chop your own path. Get off the car track.