"Indian Art broadened my seeing, loosened the formal……" — Emily Carr
"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... I had been schooled to see outsides only, not struggle to pierce."
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Emily Carr
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55 Quotes by Emily Carr
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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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