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Top 25 Lawren Harris Quotes (2025 Update)

Lawren Harris Quote: “Art is long. Life is short. A picture can become for us a highway between a particular thing and a universal feeling.”

1. “Art is long. Life is short. A picture can become for us a highway between a particular thing and a universal feeling.”

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Lawren Harris Quote: “Every work of art which really moves us is in some degree a revelation: it changes us.”

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

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Lawren Harris Quote: “Visible nature is but a distorted reflection of a more perfect world and the creative individual viewing her is inspired to perceive within and behind her many garments, that which is timeless and entirely beautiful.”

3. “Visible nature is but a distorted reflection of a more perfect world and the creative individual viewing her is inspired to perceive within and behind her many garments, that which is timeless and entirely beautiful.”

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Lawren Harris Quote: “In the inner place where true artists create there exists a pure child.”

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

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Lawren Harris Quote: “Art is not an amusement, nor a distraction, nor is it, as many men maintain, an escape from life. On the contrary, it is a high training of the soul, essential to the soul’s growth, to its unfoldment.”

5. “Art is not an amusement, nor a distraction, nor is it, as many men maintain, an escape from life. On the contrary, it is a high training of the soul, essential to the soul’s growth, to its unfoldment.”

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Lawren Harris Quote: “Abstract art is a creative interplay between the conscious and the unconscious, with the conscious mind making all the final decisions and in control throughout.”

6. “Abstract art is a creative interplay between the conscious and the unconscious, with the conscious mind making all the final decisions and in control throughout.”

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Lawren Harris Quote: “We were told, quite seriously, that there never would be a Canadian art because we had no art tradition.”

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

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Lawren Harris Quote: “So long as painting deals with objective nature, it is an impure art, for recognizability precludes the highest aesthetic emotion. All painting, ancient or modern, moves us aesthetically only in so far as it possesses a force over and beyond its aspect.”

8. “So long as painting deals with objective nature, it is an impure art, for recognizability precludes the highest aesthetic emotion. All painting, ancient or modern, moves us aesthetically only in so far as it possesses a force over and beyond its aspect.”

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Lawren Harris Quote: “Art is the beginning of vision into the realm of eternal life.”

9. “Art is the beginning of vision into the realm of eternal life.”

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Lawren Harris Quote: “Mind alone remains stable, and watches the chaos of phenomena, and knows that there is a plastic unity of existence – a changeless harmony – behind the everchanging.”

10. “Mind alone remains stable, and watches the chaos of phenomena, and knows that there is a plastic unity of existence – a changeless harmony – behind the everchanging.”

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Lawren Harris Quote: “The thought of today cannot be expressed in the language of yesterday.”

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

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Lawren Harris Quote: “For the arts epitomize, intensify and clarify the experience of beauty for us as nothing else can.”

12. “For the arts epitomize, intensify and clarify the experience of beauty for us as nothing else can.”

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Lawren Harris Quote: “I don’t suppose you do know precisely what you are after. I don’t think in the creative process anyone quite knows. They have a vague idea – a beckoning, an inkling of some truth – it is only in the process that it comes to any clarity.”

13. “I don’t suppose you do know precisely what you are after. I don’t think in the creative process anyone quite knows. They have a vague idea – a beckoning, an inkling of some truth – it is only in the process that it comes to any clarity.”

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Lawren Harris Quote: “Beauty is a living abiding presence completely untouchable by all the devices of man, such as moral codes, creeds, intellectual analysis, games and cliches, the acquisitive instinct, or lust for anything whatsoever.”

14. “Beauty is a living abiding presence completely untouchable by all the devices of man, such as moral codes, creeds, intellectual analysis, games and cliches, the acquisitive instinct, or lust for anything whatsoever.”

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Lawren Harris Quote: “The truth is that works of art test the spectator much more than the spectator tests them.”

15. “The truth is that works of art test the spectator much more than the spectator tests them.”

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Lawren Harris Quote: “Sometimes, indeed often, we work on a theme with an unformed idea, and, when it has passed through the process, its final result is something we could never have predicted when we commenced.”

16. “Sometimes, indeed often, we work on a theme with an unformed idea, and, when it has passed through the process, its final result is something we could never have predicted when we commenced.”

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Lawren Harris Quote: “New material demands new methods, and new methods fling a challenge to old convention.”

17. “New material demands new methods, and new methods fling a challenge to old convention.”

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Lawren Harris Quote: “The power of beauty at work in man, as the artist has always known, is severe and exacting, and once evoked, will never leave him alone, until he brings his work and life into some semblance of harmony with its spirit.”

18. “The power of beauty at work in man, as the artist has always known, is severe and exacting, and once evoked, will never leave him alone, until he brings his work and life into some semblance of harmony with its spirit.”

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Lawren Harris Quote: “Art must take to the road and risk all for the glory of adventure.”

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

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Lawren Harris Quote: “Of course there must be the urge, the indefinable longing to get something through into terms of plastic presentation, but results are nearly always unpredictable.”

20. “Of course there must be the urge, the indefinable longing to get something through into terms of plastic presentation, but results are nearly always unpredictable.”

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Lawren Harris Quote: “Experiences, much more than instruction, are a seeing with the inner eye – finding a channel to our essential inner life, a door to our deepest understanding wherein we have the capacity for universal response.”

21. “Experiences, much more than instruction, are a seeing with the inner eye – finding a channel to our essential inner life, a door to our deepest understanding wherein we have the capacity for universal response.”

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Lawren Harris Quote: “I felt the strange brooding lonely presence of Nature fostering a new race, a new age, and as part of it, a new expression in Art. It was an unfolding of the heart itself through the effect of environment, of people, of place, and time.”

22. “I felt the strange brooding lonely presence of Nature fostering a new race, a new age, and as part of it, a new expression in Art. It was an unfolding of the heart itself through the effect of environment, of people, of place, and time.”

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Lawren Harris Quote: “It requires courage to face and to conquer the immense weight of inertia and the dead and dying traditions and sophistications that clutter the minds of men and mould them into the mimicry of living ways...”

23. “It requires courage to face and to conquer the immense weight of inertia and the dead and dying traditions and sophistications that clutter the minds of men and mould them into the mimicry of living ways...”

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Lawren Harris Quote: “I myself incline to drift, to accept a lesser situation rather than strive for a greater, and yet, I know that character in life and art is only made by an effort that is quite beyond one’s ordinary everyday acceptance of things as they are.”

24. “I myself incline to drift, to accept a lesser situation rather than strive for a greater, and yet, I know that character in life and art is only made by an effort that is quite beyond one’s ordinary everyday acceptance of things as they are.”

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Lawren Harris Quote: “Are we taking the drunken drivers off the road only to turn them into drunken pedestrians?”

25. “Are we taking the drunken drivers off the road only to turn them into drunken pedestrians?”

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