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 art galleries and in great works…

- Lawren Harris

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

- Lawren Harris

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

- Lawren Harris

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

- Lawren Harris

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

- Lawren Harris

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

- Lawren Harris

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

- Lawren Harris

We were told, quite seriously, that there never would be a Canadian art because we had no art tradition.

- Lawren Harris