One must look through a sea of self-doubt when painting a canvas.

1916 Autumn Birches #tt1916

When in Algonquin Park I lived with the Frasers as one of the family

1915-16 Moonlight Oil #upclose

1916 Autumn #tt1916

Expression is a spiritual necessity: self-glorification is a lack of something to express.

1916 Autumn #tt1916

I spent many happy days looking at tree stumps..

1916 Autumn Hillside #tt1916

English art is a generation behind. Canadian art, a century.

I stripped my life down to its bare essential.

1916 Moonlight Over Canoe Lake #tt1916 found at @TheAGH

Better to be wise and silent than a fool who speaks out

The difference between a caprice and a lifelong passion is that the caprice lasts longer - Oscar Wilde.

Gilmour Company closed its operation on Canoe Lake in 1900

Nothing in the natural world is meaningless.

1914 The Pink Houseboat last seen at @theartemporium

I would freely give away my sketches if admired

Mark Robinson knew my moods and knew when not to intrude.

My grandfather was the most celebrated fisherman in Pickering, my father in Sydenham and me in Algonquin.

1916 Autumn Algonquin Park #tt1916

1915-16 Decoration Autumn Landscape

Those who go a-borrowing go a-sorrowing.

For the landscape to paint, I was indebted to the lumber companies; dams, log shutes, camp clearings

Jackson described a canvas of Harris as Tomato Soup.

I resented Dr MacCallum saying that Jackson had too m

I am plain and easy-going as an old shoe.

1914 Mowat Lodge #tt1914

House in Owen Sound

1916-17 The Pointers

Jimmy MacDonald helped me to incorporate strong design principles in my work.

1902 Self Portrait A Day in Tacoma

I liked to get my birch panels from a veneer mill in South River. I ordered them by the hundred-lot.