Jackson and I were so poor that we could only afford the occasional film at the cinema.
Tom Thomson
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Follow the Journal of My Last Spring on nostr. Tweeting in real-time from 1917
I knew all of the birds and their song.
A good artist makes you forget you are looking at brush strokes on canvas.
1916 Approaching Snowstorm #1916 
The trees, rocks and weather are in my bones.
In 1906 my brother George gave up being a businessman and went to NY City to become an artist.
The city has cranks full of enthusiasm and theory but with little practical experience
Only dead things remain as they are.
No need to shout at the Almighty, he won't listen
Americans think we are like the British. The British think we are like Americans
Sometime I feel like a phoney and fear my work will be revealed for what it is.
I am plain and easy-going as an old shoe.
Park Advice: A year employment in the bush will cure anyone in the incipient stages of consumption
I once gave a doctor 4 sketches as payment for treatment. He didn't think much of the sketches and put them in the cellar.
I hate authority being imposed on me
Mississauga is considered the finest canoe trip in the world. #ttletter
This place is getting too much like north Rosedale to suit me #ttletter
In these times, when you marry a woman, you marry her family too. That'll be no longer the case for me.
Smoking my pipe and deliberating on my plans for the future. I may not be staying at Mowat Lodge for much longer, but I reveal this to no...
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