"When I do carvings, most of the time I try and have the stone more like talking to me to tell me if it will work this way." -- Osuitok Ipeelee

"Right now, what I feel about my artwork is that it reflects what my culture, my small society, is going through. Land claim negotiations are shaking the foundation of our society. You ask why Inuit artists are producing "memory art" rather than social commentary. It's because of fear. Look at us today. For the last 150 or 200 years our culture has been sabotaged by you guys, your values. I'm wearing your clothing. Any culture tries to hold onto to what it's losing. We were and still are trying to document our own history. Many times our works are about our legends and events such as mass starvations. The only way that we are able to hold onto many of our cultural values is by reducing art to forms related to and centred around that culture."-- Gilbert Hay


"People draw what they have seen and heard. I draw what I've heard before, not just what I have seen. I don't just draw what's on my mind, I draw what was before; like people's lifestyle from before."-- Pitaloosie Saila,


"Now in my drawings I draw land, because everybody in this world sees land everytime they get up...I really love making landscapes - the sky and everything... I even like it when someone takes a photograph outside, with no people. I like the scenery and I really love to draw it."-- Pudlo Pudlat