Space, Place, and a Race That Will Not Die - Literature and Painting in Quebec: From Imagery to Identity - page 187

the freedom of space, captures the inherent complexity and contradic-
tions of this race that will not die.
Significantly, a similar sense of the responsibility to work, and to the
work, also qualifies Richard's sense of freedom - 'c'est dans cette op-
tique de bourreau de travail et de perfectionnement que j'ai utilisé ma
liberté d'homme des bois et de peintre' (in Pelletier, 156; it's from the
perspective of a glutton for work that I used my freedom as adventurer
and painter) - as we shall further witness in chapter 8.