My father thought his boys owed him a living and forced us to stay on the farm until 21.
Tom Thomson
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I am not a philosophner, nor a mystic, just an inspired man struggling against heavy odds.
1916 The Dead Pine @AGOToronto #tt1916 
An artist has to paint as he sees the scene if it is going to be natural and to last
I'm happy when I come through with my sketches, despondent when I don't
Art critic Carl Ahrens said it was the European Gestalt embraced by the Canadian artists led to the War.
I enjoy walking, I once walked 20 miles in a blizzard to Meaford and then back.
1917 Cold Spring #tt1917 
Feb 14, 1917 Last quarter of moon tonight. 
A good artist makes you forget you are looking at brush strokes on canvas.
Mystery is not the same a misunderstanding.
By 1913 J.R. Booth could cut any tree he wanted in the Park.
Wind from the east, fish bite the least
1916 Autumn Hillside #tt1916 
I liked it when Lawren Harris visited me in the Park. It kept my mind off @WinnieTrainor
The pines that were considered unpaintable were beautiful to me.
Jim MacDonald has been branded the most radical artist in Toronto. Nobody wants to buy his art now.
I studied under William Cruikshank, but thankfully, only for a short period of time.
Afterglow by Florence McGillivray 
You work with your mind not with your hands