Emily Carr Short Quotes

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Got a new pup. He is half griffon. The other half is mistake.

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Perfectly ordered disorder designed with a helter-skelter magnificence.

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Real art is religion, a search for the beauty of God deep in all things.

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So still were the big woods where I sat, sound might not yet have been born.

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Do not try to do extraordinary things but do ordinary things with intensity.

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The memory of Cumshewa is of a great lonesomeness smothered in a blur of rain.

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Let me not fuss and fret at my incompetence but be still and know that Thou art God.

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

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Trying to find equivalents for things in words helps me find equivalents in painting.

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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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I made myself into an envelope into which I could thrust my work deep, lick the flap, seal it from everybody.

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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 your own soul.

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There is something bigger than fact: the underlying spirit, all it stands for, the mood, the vastness, the wildness.

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I sat staring, staring, staring - half lost, learning a new language or rather the same language in a different dialect.

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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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Oh I do want that thing, that oneness of movement that will catch the thing up into one movement and sing - harmony of life.

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

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

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Oh, Spring! I want to go out and feel you and get inspiration. My old things seem dead. I want fresh contacts, more vital searching.

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You always feel when you look it straight in the eye that you could have put more into it, could have let yourself go and dug harder.

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There was neither horizon, cloud, nor sound; of that pink, spread silence even I had become part, belonging as much to sky as to earth.

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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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I wonder why we are always sort of ashamed of our best parts and try to hide them. We don't mind ridicule of our 'sillinesses' but of our 'sobers'.

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My mountain is dead. As soon as she has dried, I'll bury her under a decent layer of white paint. But I haven't done with the old lady; far from it!

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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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You must be absolutely honest and true in the depicting of a totem for meaning is attached to every line. You must be most particular about detail and proportion.

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There is a side of friendship that develops better and stronger by correspondence than contact... The absence of the flesh in writing perhaps brings souls nearer.

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Art is an aspect of God and there is only one God, but different people see Him in different ways. Though He is always the same He doesn't always look the same...

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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 silent and subtle. One does not keep digging up a plant to see how it grew.

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The liveness in me just loves to feel the liveness in growing things, in grass and rain and leaves and flowers and sun and feathers and furs and earth and sand and moss.

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