Jackson said of Bill Beatty, 'He is so soaked in monochrome that mild things excite him.'
Tom Thomson
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Being right isn't all there is to life.
A girl once said of me 'I would have married him in a second, but he wasn't the marrying kind'. She was right.
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I picked raspberries on one side of the bush, while a bear was picking on the other.
I started working at Grip in 1908. That's where I met Jim MacDonald.
I can see directly into the landscape and transform it.
1916 Snow in the Woods I #tt1916 
Why does a Nation have to define itself by War? Why not by Art?
1910 Margaret Thomson, my mother #tt1910 
Trying to be naive and not intellectual gives you the better product.
1914 Red Leaves #tt1914 
My father was not a particularly hard worker but he expected us to be.
Someone once observed that I like art better than women.
1908 View from the Window of Grip Ltd. 14.9 x 10.2 cm Gouache and watercolour on paper #tt1908 
Being an artist have given me an independent point of view - not good for the war effort some say.
October 1914, Jackson met up with in the Park. That fall, the colours were their finest.
1916 A View from a Height #tt1916 
1913 Moonlight #tt1913 
I began my career as a painter in 1906 by copying others.