At times I am moody, temperamental and deeply discouraged.
Tom Thomson
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A photo would be great but the painted things are awful.
I wanted to be a sailor or enlist in the Boer War but my father wouldn't let me go.
All the big lumbermen are on Grand Lake.
I would produce more from uninspired material while my chums were of searching for inspired material.
Wake up..
I had the reputation of being an ornery person on occasion and a womanizer.
Harris tried to convince me of Theosophy. I still don't know what it is.
It is our savage nature gives us creativity and passion.
Jackson said it wasn't about Canadian art, it was ending our dependence on stale European tradtions
I am generous to the point of being careless about money.
Avoid entering a canoe with anyone who displays evangelical fervour.
1914 Grey Clouds, Algonquin Park #tt1914 
I'm happy when I come through with my sketches, despondent when I don't
There's not many people I dislike, but when I do, I dislike them intensely.
Only dead things remain as they are.
By 1910 I was making regular sketching trips with my friends to Lake Scugog, Weston, Lambton and York Mills.
The trees, rocks and weather are in my bones.
Jackson and I were so poor that we could only afford the occasional film at the cinema.