George Morrison talks about:

His training and early influences:
"My training was very academic, and we drew from models and even casts. I don't regret that I had that kind of training, it was good for me, but I was also influenced by movements that were coming from Europe around the time of my leaving school and reaching ("actions league"?) in New York. My work was beginning to be accepted as a person who was an Indian, but not doing Indian themes. A lot of my techniques probably remain within that context of abstraction, surrealism and expressionism."

Natural textures in his work:
"Since my student days, I have always been interested in texture. I suppose that comes from growing up around and being close to nature, living around rocks and trees, water, and being influenced by that kind of natural texture."

What wood grain evokes:
"The grain in the wood and the knots in the wood suggest clouds and sun, the movements of clouds in the sky. Could suggest water, but it could also suggest the beach and sand, the crusty sand and the crusty earth or the crusty rocks, or even some of the moss and some of the lichen that's attached to the rocks. Some of that kind of feeling."

The role of landscape in his work:
"The landscape has been primarily one of my main themes in my paintings throughout my life, so therefore I think the horizon line came back full force, consciously and subconsciously."