--- title: "1 Growth Inside Quotes By Emily Carr" description: "1 Growth Inside quotes by Emily Carr. Plus more from Emily Carr and more Growth Inside sayings from other authors." image: "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/f5b/emily-carr-8993_art_i-think-that-one-s-art-is-a-growth-insid_653671.png" --- > [I think that one's art is a growth inside one. I do not think one can explain growth. It is silent and subtle. One does not keep digging up a plant to see how it grows.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/emily-carr/i-think-that-one-s-art-is-a-growth-inside-one-i-do-not-think-one-can/) [Emily Carr](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/emily-carr/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/f5b/emily-carr-8993_art_i-think-that-one-s-art-is-a-growth-insid_653671.png) ## More by Emily Carr > [It's all the unwordable things one wants to write about, just as it's all the unformable things one wants to paint - essence.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/emily-carr/it-s-all-the-unwordable-things-one-wants-to-write-about-just-as-it-s/) [Emily Carr](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/emily-carr/) > [The biggest part of painting perhaps is faith, and waiting receptively, content to go any way, not planning or forcing. The fear, though, is…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/emily-carr/the-biggest-part-of-painting-perhaps-is-faith-and-waiting-receptively/) [Emily Carr](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/emily-carr/) > [What a splendid time Woo must have had.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/emily-carr/what-a-splendid-time-woo-must-have-had/) [Emily Carr](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/emily-carr/) > [The spirit must be felt so intensely that it has power to call others in passing, for it must pass, not stop in the…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/emily-carr/the-spirit-must-be-felt-so-intensely-that-it-has-power-to-call-others/) [Emily Carr](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/emily-carr/) > [Inspiration is intention obeyed.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/emily-carr/inspiration-is-intention-obeyed/) [Emily Carr](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/emily-carr/) > [Art being so much greater than ourselves, it will not give up once it has taken hold.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/emily-carr/art-being-so-much-greater-than-ourselves-it-will-not-give-up-once-it/) [Emily Carr](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/emily-carr/) > [Oh, I wonder if I will ever feel the burst of birth-joy, that knowing that the indescribable, joyous thing that has wooed and wond…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/emily-carr/oh-i-wonder-if-i-will-ever-feel-the-burst-of-birth-joy-that-knowing/) [Emily Carr](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/emily-carr/) > [Sometimes I could quit paint and take to charring. It must be fine to clean perfectly, to shine and polish and know that it…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/emily-carr/sometimes-i-could-quit-paint-and-take-to-charring-it-must-be-fine-to/) [Emily Carr](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/emily-carr/) > [How badly I want that nameless thing! First there must be an idea, a feeling... Maybe it was an abstract idea that you've got…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/emily-carr/how-badly-i-want-that-nameless-thing-first-there-must-be-an-idea-a/) [Emily Carr](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/emily-carr/) > [The sun enriched the old poles grandly... The mothers expressed all womanhood - the big wooden hands holding the child were so full of…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/emily-carr/the-sun-enriched-the-old-poles-grandly-the-mothers-expressed-all/) [Emily Carr](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/emily-carr/) > [Look at the earth crowded with growth, new and old bursting from their strong roots hidden in the silent, live ground, each seed according…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/emily-carr/look-at-the-earth-crowded-with-growth-new-and-old-bursting-from-their/) [Emily Carr](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/emily-carr/) > [Oh, the glory of growth, silent, mighty, persistent, inevitable! To awaken, to open up like a flower to the light of a fuller consciousness!](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/emily-carr/oh-the-glory-of-growth-silent-mighty-persistent-inevitable-to-awaken/) [Emily Carr](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/emily-carr/) > [The earth is soaked and soggy with rain. Everything is drinking its fill and the surplus gluts the drains. The sky is full of…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/emily-carr/the-earth-is-soaked-and-soggy-with-rain-everything-is-drinking-its/) [Emily Carr](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/emily-carr/) > [So still were the big woods where I sat, sound might not yet have been born.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/emily-carr/so-still-were-the-big-woods-where-i-sat-sound-might-not-yet-have-been/) [Emily Carr](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/emily-carr/) > [Got a new pup. He is half griffon. The other half is mistake.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/emily-carr/got-a-new-pup-he-is-half-griffon-the-other-half-is-mistake/) [Emily Carr](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/emily-carr/) ```json { "@context": "https://schema.org", "@graph": [ { "@type": "ItemList", "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/growth-inside/emily-carr/#itemlist", "name": "1 Growth Inside Quotes By Emily Carr", "numberOfItems": 1, "itemListElement": [ { "@type": "ListItem", "position": 1, "item": { "@type": "Quotation", "text": "I think that one's art is a growth inside one. I do not think one can explain growth. It is silent and subtle. 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