Emily Carr Quotes About Art

Quotes about: Art

• 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

• 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

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

  Emily Carr

  Art, Peace, Incompetence

  Emily Carr (2009). “Hundreds and Thousands: The Journals of Emily Carr”, p.64, D & M Publishers

• 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

• 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.

  Emily Carr

  Art, People, Different

  Emily Carr (2009). “Hundreds and Thousands: The Journals of Emily Carr”, p.159, D & M Publishers

• 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.

  Emily Carr

  Art, Struggle, School

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

• 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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