Bruce Hutchison quotes

Bruce Hutchison quotes

last updated: November 28, 2023

“I would be the last to disparage the genius of the politicians who make our laws," Hutchison wrote around that time, "the writers who make our books, the artists who make our pictures, but in gauging the true culture of the nation and reckoning its tensile strength, let the student not neglect hockey”
-- Bruce Hutchison

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“Canada entered World War I as a colony and came out a nation...”
-- Bruce Hutchison

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“Our sons, who so easily recognize our errors, and rightly denounce them, will have to confess their own, later on, and they may be as bad as ours, perhaps worse.”
-- Bruce Hutchison

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“One has to ascertain the right path for his activities by following in the footsteps of great saintly persons and books of knowledge under the guidance of a spiritual master.”
“We brought him [Raffi Torres] in because he was an emotional, physical player. He's had nothing but a great attitude and a great work ethic with us all year long. He comes to play, prepares himself real well. We need him to play the way he does. You know, he's a little bit sometimes outside the box, but you've got to let him be who he is.”
“Let's make like a hockey player and get the puck out of here.”
“The NHL's opinion of itself is so high.... Let them get drunk on their greatness. We'll see how many Euros look our way.”
“Maybe's he's just jealous I have hair.”
“I want to be a real artist to consumers. I want to be the real thing for them.”
“Musicians must make music, artists must paint, poets must write if they are to be ultimately at peace with themselves. What human beings can be, they must be. They must be true to their own nature. This need we may call self-actualization.”
“The more an artist works the more there is to do.”

Source : Ad Reinhardt, Barbara Rose (1991). “Art-as-art: The Selected Writings of Ad Reinhardt”, p.56, Univ of California Press
“We all name ourselves. We call ourselves artists. Nobody asks us. Nobody says you are or you aren't.”
“Only a bad artist thinks he has a good idea. A good artist does not need anything.”

Source : Ad Reinhardt, Barbara Rose (1991). “Art-as-art: The Selected Writings of Ad Reinhardt”, p.143, Univ of California Press

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