This place is getting too much like north Rosedale to suit me #ttletter
Tom Thomson
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If you are to remain true as an artist, you need to remain true to the art you first learned as a craftsmen.
1916 Autumn Birches #tt1916 
1916 Autumn #tt1916 
Jim MacDonald has been branded the most radical artist in Toronto. Nobody wants to buy his art now.
It's hard to be a radical when you have a family to support. Better to be single and alone.
Sometimes I paint as if my life depended upon it. Sometimes I fail.
The only way to be economical is to keep going with what you have.
Lismer once remarked, 'Toronto is a good place - to get out of!'
My father thought his boys owed him a living and forced us to stay on the farm until 21.
I do not philosphize nor do I analyze myself.
I am cordial, untamed, moody, exuberant - all at the same time.
An admiration of my sketch would prompt me to give it away.
I can never keep straight who is fighting whom overseas
I mind my own business and I expect others to mind theirs.
I stripped my life down to its bare essential.
Square dances are a good way of getting to know women while keeping your options open.
My father was not a particularly hard worker but he expected us to be.
When I first arrived in Algonquin Park in 1913 it was a quiet place. Few lumbermen, fewer tourists.