"How badly I want that nameless thing! First……" — 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 to find a symbol for, or maybe it was a concrete form that you have to simplify or distort to meet your ends, but that starting point must pervade the whole."
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Emily Carr
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55 Quotes by Emily Carr
Emily Carr has 55 quotes on this site.
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You come into the world alone and you go out of the world alone yet it seems to me you…
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I think that one's art is a growth inside one. I do not think one can explain growth. It is…
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Perfectly ordered disorder designed with a helter-skelter magnificence.
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Twenty can't be expected to tolerate sixty in all things, and sixty gets bored stiff with twenty's eternal love affairs.
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Look at the earth crowded with growth, new and old bursting from their strong roots hidden in the silent, live…
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The spirit must be felt so intensely that it has power to call others in passing, for it must pass,…
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Art is an aspect of God and there is only one God, but different people see Him in different ways.…
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There was neither horizon, cloud, nor sound; of that pink, spread silence even I had become part, belonging as much…
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The artist himself may not think he is religious, but if he is sincere his sincerity in itself is religion.
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Art is art, nature is nature, you cannot improve upon it.... Pictures should be inspired by nature, but made in…
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Be careful that you do not write or paint anything that is not your own, that you don't know in…
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As the woods are the same, the trees standing in their places, the rocks and the earth... they are always…
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To those who have exhausted politics, nothing remains but abstract thought.
— Honore de Balzac
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I was a really lousy artist as a kid. Too abstract expressionist; or I'd draw a big ram's head, really…
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In the abstract conception of universal wrong, all concrete responsibility vanishes.
— Theodor Adorno
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None of the abstract concepts comes closer to fulfilled utopia than that of eternal peace.
— Theodor Adorno
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Good science fiction is intelligent. It asks big questions that are on people's minds. It's not impossible. It has some…
— Nicolas Cage
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Science fiction is a way that I can go into the abstract, go into the imagination, and audiences are still…
— Nicolas Cage
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I am searching for abstract ways of expressing reality, abstract forms that will enlighten my own mystery.
— Eric Cantona
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Abstract art: a product of the untalented sold by the unprincipled to the utterly bewildered.
— Al Capp
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Change means movement. Movement means friction. Only in the frictionless vacuum of a nonexistent abstract world can movement or change…
— Saul Alinsky
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'Woman on the Plaza,' with its distinct horizon, snow-like surfaces, wintry wall, stunning sunlight, sharp shadows, and hurrying figure, would…
— Sam Abell
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Old ideas give way slowly; for they are more than abstract logical forms and categories. They are habits, predispositions, deeply…
— John Dewey
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It is difficult to talk about fashion in the abstract, without a human body before my eyes, without drawings, without…
— Giorgio Armani
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