Snow and reflections were beautiful but transient effects and other difficulties were beyond me.

- J. E. H. Macdonald

To paint from nature is to realize one's sensations, not to copy what is before one.

- J. E. H. Macdonald

One felt that the mountains are not completed. The builders are still at work. Stones come rolling and jumping from the upper scaffolding and often f…

- J. E. H. Macdonald

It is the work of the Canadian artist to paint or play or write in such a way that life will be enlarged for himself and his fellow man. The painter …

- J. E. H. Macdonald

If the function of the artist is to see, the first duty of the critic is to understand what the artist saw.

- J. E. H. Macdonald

I have memories of the clearest crystal mountain days imaginable, when we fortunates in the height seemed to be sky people living in light alone.

- J. E. H. Macdonald

Made a sketch later on the cabin verandah, but it was impossible to keep up with the changes. Oh the difficulties of mountain art for too little geni…

- J. E. H. Macdonald