"I was not ready for abstraction. I clung……" — Emily Carr
"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 I wanted to hear her throb."
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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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More Abstraction Quotes
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Abstraction is real, probably more real than nature.
— Josef Albers
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That's what it is that you rehearse - the making of music, not the playing of notes as abstractions.
— Sarah Caldwell
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Pure drawing is an abstraction. Drawing and colour are not distinct, everything in nature is coloured.
— Paul Cezanne
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So the universe is constantly moving in the direction of higher evolutionary impulses, creativity, abstraction, and meaning.
— Deepak Chopra
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Love is not some complex, mystical abstraction. It is something accessible and human that we learn through our everyday experience,…
— Leo Buscaglia
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The spiritual life is not a special career, involving abstraction from the world of things. It is a part of…
— Evelyn Underhill
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The individual is the true reality of life. A cosmos in himself, he does not exist for the State, nor…
— Emma Goldman
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The truly modern artist is aware of abstraction in an emotion of beauty.
— Piet Mondrian
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Do not copy nature too much. Art is an abstraction.
— Paul Gauguin
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The abstraction is often the most definite form for the intangible thing in myself that I can clarify in paint.
— Georgia O'Keeffe
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Of the many forms of false culture, a premature converse with abstractions is perhaps the most likely to prove fatal…
— George Boole
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It is astonishing that so simple a truth should ever have had an adversary; and it is one among a…
— Alexander Hamilton
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