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“Sometimes I could quit paint and take to charring. It…” quote by Emily Carr — Download Open image

“Sometimes I could quit paint and take to charring. It must be fine to clean perfectly, to shine and polish and know that it could not be done better. In painting that never occurs.”

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Inspiration is intention obeyed.

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

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