Emily Carr Quotes

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• You come into the world alone and you go out of the world alone yet it seems to me you are more alone while living…
• 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…
• Perfectly ordered disorder designed with a helter-skelter magnificence.
• Twenty can't be expected to tolerate sixty in all things, and sixty gets bored stiff with twenty's eternal love affairs.
• Look at the earth crowded with growth, new and old bursting from their strong roots hidden in the silent, live ground, each seed according to…
• The spirit must be felt so intensely that it has power to call others in passing, for it must pass, not stop in the pictures...
• Art is an aspect of God and there is only one God, but different people see Him in different ways. Though He is always the…
• There was neither horizon, cloud, nor sound; of that pink, spread silence even I had become part, belonging as much to sky as to earth.
• The artist himself may not think he is religious, but if he is sincere his sincerity in itself is religion.
• Art is art, nature is nature, you cannot improve upon it.... Pictures should be inspired by nature, but made in the soul of the artist.…
• Be careful that you do not write or paint anything that is not your own, that you don't know in your own soul.
• As the woods are the same, the trees standing in their places, the rocks and the earth... they are always different too, as lights and…
• You must be absolutely honest and true in the depicting of a totem for meaning is attached to every line. You must be most particular…
• Writing is a strong easement for perplexity. My life is a map, spread out with all the rivers and hills showing.
• It is wonderful to feel the grandness of Canada in the raw, not because she is Canada but because she's something sublime that you were…
• What a splendid time Woo must have had.
• Do not try to do extraordinary things but do ordinary things with intensity.
• Cedars are terribly sensitive to change of time and light - sometimes they are bluish cold-green, then they turn yellow warm-green - sometimes their boughs…
• Oh, Spring! I want to go out and feel you and get inspiration. My old things seem dead. I want fresh contacts, more vital searching.
• There is something bigger than fact: the underlying spirit, all it stands for, the mood, the vastness, the wildness.

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