George Woodcock Quotes

Pioneers did not produce original works of art because they were creating original human environments they did not imagine Utopias because they were shaping them.

~ George Woodcock

It is not in life but in art that self-fulfillment is to be found.

~ George Woodcock

If we can find out why the idea rather than the nation of Canada can win a growing loyalty rather than commanding it then it seems to me we shall have come very near to trapping the elusive creature the Canadian Identity.

~ George Woodcock

If we try to envisage an 'average Canadian writer' we can see him living near a campus teaching at least part-time at university level mingling too much for his work's good with academics doing as much writing as he can for the CBC and always hoping for a Canada Council Fellowship.

~ George Woodcock

I began even as a boy to realize how wide the world can be for a man of free intelligence.

~ George Woodcock

I was allowed to wander where I could. Here is a case in which you search for your independence and allow something creative to come out of that.

~ George Woodcock