J. E. H. MacDonald famous quotes

Last updated: Sep 5, 2024

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 will look around him . . . and finding everything good, will strive to communicate that feeling through a portrayal of the essentials of sunlight, or snow, or tree or tragic cloud, or human face, according to his power and individuality.
-- J. E. H. MacDonald

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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

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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 genius.
-- J. E. H. MacDonald

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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

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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 from the chasms one hears the thundering as the gods of the mountains change their minds.
-- J. E. H. MacDonald

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To paint from nature is to realize one's sensations, not to copy what is before one.
-- J. E. H. MacDonald

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Snow and reflections were beautiful but transient effects and other difficulties were beyond me.
-- J. E. H. MacDonald

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It came about as follows: over the years when I was involved in dianetics, I wrote the beginnings of many stories. I would get an idea, and then write the beginning, and then never touch it again.
Science fiction is a field of writing where, month after month, every printed word implies to hundreds of thousands of people: 'There is change. Look, today's fantastic story is tomorrow's fact.
The primary requisite for writing well about food is a good appetite.
If the first requisite for writing well about food is a good appetite, the second is to put in your apprenticeship as a feeder when you have enough money to pay the check but not enough to produce indifference of the total.
I think with anything where you delve into the back story of an artist, it kind of explains their work more intimately.
My mum is an artist and very into creative expression and freedom.
Musicians must make music, artists must paint, poets must write if they are to be ultimately at peace with themselves. What human beings can be, they must be. They must be true to their own nature. This need we may call self-actualization.
Only a bad artist thinks he has a good idea. A good artist does not need anything.
The sanctified body is one whose hands are clean. The stain of dishonesty is not on them, the withering blight of ill-gotten gain has not blistered them, the mark of violence is not found upon them. They have been separated from every occupation that could displease God or injure a fellow-man.
Our first duty is to satisfy the spiritual master, who can arrange for the Lord's mercy. A common man must first begin to serve the spiritual master or the devotee. Then, through the mercy of the devotee, the Lord will be satisfied. Unless one receives the dust of a devotee's lotus feet on one's head, there is no possibility of advancement. Unless one approaches a pure devotee, he cannot understand the Supreme Personality of Godhead.

J. E. H. MacDonald famous quotes

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