Compare Quote by Emily Carr

It's all the unwordable things one wants to write about, just as it's all the unformable things one wants to paint - essence.

— Emily Carr

The biggest part of painting perhaps is faith, and waiting receptively, content to go any way, not planning or forcing. The fear, though, is…

— Emily Carr

What a splendid time Woo must have had.

— Emily Carr

The spirit must be felt so intensely that it has power to call others in passing, for it must pass, not stop in the…

— Emily Carr

Inspiration is intention obeyed.

— Emily Carr

Art being so much greater than ourselves, it will not give up once it has taken hold.

— Emily Carr

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…

— Emily Carr

Sometimes I could quit paint and take to charring. It must be fine to clean perfectly, to shine and polish and know that it…

— 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…

— Emily Carr

The sun enriched the old poles grandly... The mothers expressed all womanhood - the big wooden hands holding the child were so full of…

— Emily Carr

Look at the earth crowded with growth, new and old bursting from their strong roots hidden in the silent, live ground, each seed according…

— Emily Carr

Oh, the glory of growth, silent, mighty, persistent, inevitable! To awaken, to open up like a flower to the light of a fuller consciousness!

— Emily Carr