James Houston Quotes

Canada, Artist
June 12, 1921 – April, 17, 2005.

James Archibald Houston, OC, FRSA (June 12, 1921 – April 17, 2005) was a Canadian artist, designer, children's author and filmmaker who played an important role in the recognition of Inuit art and introduced printmaking to the Inuit. The Inuit named him "Saumik," which means "the left-handed one".

Also known as Designer, Author, Film Maker

Words are the basic tools, if you are a writer.

James Houston
- Words
It's hard now to imagine that kind of travel and the daily tasks they simply took for granted. If a wagon axle broke, you had to stop and carve a new one. To cross a river, you sometimes had to build a raft.

James Houston
- Stop
- Travel
- Daily

Through practice you'll learn to identify the wrong 'un which should be heaved back over his syrup. You'll be singing happy little songs about the whereabouts of his missus in no time.

James Houston
- Practice
- Identify
- Syrup
When they eventually ran out of food, some but not all resorted to eating the flesh of those who'd died. This story has mythic power in large part as a testimony to what people are capable of when pushed to the extremes of human experience. Some become savages. Some become heroes.

James Houston
- Food
- Died
- Flesh