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Subject Means Quotes by Emily Carr

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What do I want to express? The subject means little. The arrangement, the design, colour, shape, depth, light, space, mood, movement, balance, not one or all of these fills the bill. There is something additional, a breath that draws your…

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It's all the unwordable things one wants to write about, just as it's all the unformable things one wants to paint - essence.

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What a splendid time Woo must have had.

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The spirit must be felt so intensely that it has power to call others in passing, for it must pass, not stop in the…

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Inspiration is intention obeyed.

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Art being so much greater than ourselves, it will not give up once it has taken hold.

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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…

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Sometimes I could quit paint and take to charring. It must be fine to clean perfectly, to shine and polish and know that it…

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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…

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The sun enriched the old poles grandly... The mothers expressed all womanhood - the big wooden hands holding the child were so full of…

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Look at the earth crowded with growth, new and old bursting from their strong roots hidden in the silent, live ground, each seed according…

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Oh, the glory of growth, silent, mighty, persistent, inevitable! To awaken, to open up like a flower to the light of a fuller consciousness!

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