Emily Carr Quotes

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

  Emily Carr

  Practice, Trying, Ordinary

  Emily Carr (2009). “Hundreds and Thousands: The Journals of Emily Carr”, p.58, D & M Publishers

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• Art is art, nature is nature, you cannot improve upon it.... Pictures should be inspired by nature, but made in the soul of the artist. It is the soul of the individual that counts.

  Emily Carr

  Art, Soul, Inspired

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• It is wonderful to feel the grandness of Canada in the raw, not because she is Canada but because she's something sublime that you were born into, some great rugged power that you are a part of.

  Emily Carr

  Patriotic, Power, Sublime

  Emily Carr (2009). “Hundreds and Thousands: The Journals of Emily Carr”, p.383, D & M Publishers

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• Look at the earth crowded with growth, new and old bursting from their strong roots hidden in the silent, live ground, each seed according to its own kind...each one knowing what to do, each one demanding its own rights on the earth. So artist, you too from the depths of your soul...let your roots creep forth, gaining strength.

  Emily Carr

  Spiritual, Strong, Artist

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

  Emily Carr

  Vastness, Facts, Spirit

  Emily Carr (2009). “Hundreds and Thousands: The Journals of Emily Carr”, p.24, D & M Publishers

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

  Emily Carr

  Art, Giving Up, Taken

  Emily Carr, Doris Shadbolt (1993). “The Emily Carr Omnibus”, University of Washington Press

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• Inspiration is intention obeyed.

  Emily Carr

  Inspiration, Intention

  Emily Carr (2009). “Hundreds and Thousands: The Journals of Emily Carr”, p.58, D & M Publishers

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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.

  Emily Carr

  Rain, Flower, Moss

  Emily Carr (2009). “Hundreds and Thousands: The Journals of Emily Carr”, p.326, D & M Publishers

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• enter into the life of the trees. Know your relationship and understand their language, unspoken, unwritten talk. Answer back to them with their own dumb magnificence, soul words, earth words, the God in you responding to the God in them.

  Emily Carr

  God, Tree, Dumb

  Emily Carr (2009). “Hundreds and Thousands: The Journals of Emily Carr”, p.56, D & M Publishers

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

  Emily Carr

  Art, Real, Art Is

  Emily Carr (2009). “Hundreds and Thousands: The Journals of Emily Carr”, p.238, D & M Publishers

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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 grows.

  Emily Carr

  Art, Thinking, Growth

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

  Emily Carr

  Silence, Sound, Dialect

  Emily Carr (2009). “Growing Pains: The Autobiography of Emily Carr”, p.289, D & M Publishers

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• You come into the world alone and you go out of the world alone yet it seems to me you are more alone while living than even going and coming.

  Emily Carr

  Loneliness, Political, World

  Emily Carr (2009). “Hundreds and Thousands: The Journals of Emily Carr”, p.69, D & M Publishers

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• As the woods are the same, the trees standing in their places, the rocks and the earth... they are always different too, as lights and shadows and seasons and moods pass through them.

  Emily Carr

  Light, Rocks, Tree

  Emily Carr (1979). “Hundreds and thousands”

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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.

  Emily Carr

  Writing, Essence, Want

  Emily Carr (2009). “Hundreds and Thousands: The Journals of Emily Carr”, p.165, D & M Publishers

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• It is wonderful to feel the grandness of Canada in the raw.

  Emily Carr

  Canada, Wonderful, Feels

  Emily Carr (2009). “Hundreds and Thousands: The Journals of Emily Carr”, p.383, D & M Publishers

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• There is no right and wrong way to paint except honestly or dishonestly. Honestly is trying for the bigger thing. Dishonestly is bluffing and getting through a smattering of surface representation with no meaning.

  Emily Carr

  Trying, Way, Painting

  Emily Carr (2009). “Opposite Contraries: The Unknown Journals of Emily Carr and Other Writings”, p.76, D & M Publishers

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• I am always watching for fear of getting feeble and passé in my work. I don't want to trickle out. I want to pour till the pail is empty, the last bit going out in a gush, not in drops.

  Emily Carr

  Going Out, Want, Lasts

  Emily Carr (2009). “Hundreds and Thousands: The Journals of Emily Carr”, p.351, D & M Publishers

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• Perfectly ordered disorder designed with a helter-skelter magnificence.

  Emily Carr

  Magnificence, Disorder

  Emily Carr (2009). “Hundreds and Thousands: The Journals of Emily Carr”, p.10, D & M Publishers

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• Over and over one must ask oneself the queston, 'What do I want to express? What is the thought behind the saying? What is my ideal, what my objective? What? Why? Why? What?

  Emily Carr

  Want, Behinds, Ideals

  Emily Carr (2009). “Hundreds and Thousands: The Journals of Emily Carr”, p.293, D & M Publishers

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• What do I want to express? The subject means little. The arrangement, the design, colour, shape, depth, light, space, mood, movement, balance, not one or all of these fills the bill. There is something additional, a breath that draws your breath into its breathing, a heartbeat that pounds on yours, a recognition of the oneness of all things.

  Emily Carr

  Mean, Oneness, Space

  Emily Carr (2009). “Hundreds and Thousands: The Journals of Emily Carr”, p.293, D & M Publishers

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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.

  Emily Carr

  Writing, Soul, Paint

  Emily Carr (2009). “Klee Wyck”, p.10, D & M Publishers

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• Up came the sun, and drank the dew.

  Emily Carr

  Morning, Dew, Sun

  Emily Carr (2009). “The House of All Sorts”, p.32, D & M Publishers

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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.

  Emily Carr

  Writing, Soul, Stronger

  Emily Carr (2009). “Hundreds and Thousands: The Journals of Emily Carr”, p.281, D & M Publishers

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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!

  Emily Carr

  Flower, Light, Growth

  Emily Carr (2009). “Hundreds and Thousands: The Journals of Emily Carr”, p.103, D & M Publishers

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