All Emily Carr Quotes
- I was not ready for abstraction. I clung to earth and her dear shapes, her density, her herbage, her juice. I wanted her volume, and… Abstraction
- Oh I do want that thing, that oneness of movement that will catch the thing up into one movement and sing - harmony of life. Catch
- Rentals sank, living rose. I could not afford help. I must be owner, agent, landlady and janitor. I loathed landladying... I tried in every way… Afford
- 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 to… Abstract
- My mountain is dead. As soon as she has dried, I'll bury her under a decent layer of white paint. But I haven't done with… Bury
- Last night I dreamed that I came face to face with a picture I had done and forgotten, a forest done in simple movement, just… Attain
- I thought my mountain was coming this morning. It was near to speaking when suddenly it shifted, sulked, and returned to smallness. It has eluded… Coming
- The sun enriched the old poles grandly... The mothers expressed all womanhood - the big wooden hands holding the child were so full of tenderness… All
- Don't take what someone else has made sure of and pretend it's you yourself that have made sure of it till it's yours absolutely by… Absolutely
- I sat staring, staring, staring - half lost, learning a new language or rather the same language in a different dialect. Dialect
- Bless... the two painting masters who first pointed out to me that there was coming and going among trees, that there was sunlight in shadows. Among
- The memory of Cumshewa is of a great lonesomeness smothered in a blur of rain. Blur
- Over and over one must ask oneself the queston, 'What do I want to express? What is the thought behind the saying? What is my… Ask
- I have been sent more ridiculous press notices. People are frequently comparing my work with Van Gogh... I do hope I do not get bloated… Been
- There is a need to go deeper, to let myself go completely, to enter into the surroundings in the real fellowship of oneness, to lift… Centre
- Indian Art broadened my seeing, loosened the formal tightness I had learned in England's schools. Its bigness and stark reality baffled my white man's understanding...… Art
- If the air is jam-full of sounds which we tune in with, why should it not also be full of feels and smells and things… Air
- So still were the big woods where I sat, sound might not yet have been born. Been
- 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… Additional
- When you really think about your hand you begin to realize its connection, to sense the hum of your own being passing through it. When… Begin
- 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 me… Atom
- It's all the unwordable things one wants to write about, just as it's all the unformable things one wants to paint - essence. All
- Trying to find equivalents for things in words helps me find equivalents in painting. Equivalents
- Writing is a splendid sorter of... feelings, better even than paint. Better
- If you're going to lick the icing off somebody else's cake you won't be nourished and it won't do you any good,--or you might find… Any