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Tom Thomson
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Potatoes are expensive, now.
Brushes are scarce.
Anyone who knows the Park will be disappointed when they get to Heaven
Someone described me as an artist with limited funds and a drinking problem.
Jackson was such a talker. I was such a good audience for him
By the end of 1914, I knew where I was going and how to get there as an artist.
According to @mowatlodge Canoe Lake is only 8 hours by train from Toronto. According to Lismer it is a stuffy 9 hours.
When back in the city, I can never get Algonquin Park out of my head.
I went to war so my son could be a farmer and his son a poet. ~ Thomas Jefferson
Somehow, many think the hallmark of Canadian progress is sending our timber, treasure and men overseas to be blown to smithereens .
A good artist makes you forget you are looking at brush strokes on canvas.
During the winter in Toronto, I tramped the length of Rosedale Ravine with my snowshoes.
We're all having enough of this sad and ghastly war
If I painted city scenes, I would run out of grey.
The sketch I am using was made on the Madawaska, near the Mazinaw. 
An artist has to paint as he sees the scene if it is going to be natural and to last
I don't want to become depressed and mad like Van Gogh, but it's hard to fight.
In the city, one loses connection with the sun and sky