Emily Carr Quotes - Page 2

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• If you're going to lick the icing off somebody else's cake you won't be nourished and it won't do you any good,--or you might find the cake had caraway seeds and you hate them.

  Emily Carr

  Hate, Cake, Might

  Emily Carr (2009). “Hundreds and Thousands: The Journals of Emily Carr”, p.160, D & M Publishers

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• The earth is soaked and soggy with rain. Everything is drinking its fill and the surplus gluts the drains. The sky is full of it and lies low over the earth, heavy and dense. Even the sea is wetter than usual!

  Emily Carr

  Lying, Drinking, Rain

  Emily Carr (2009). “Hundreds and Thousands: The Journals of Emily Carr”, p.52, 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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• When you really think about your hand you begin to realize its connection, to sense the hum of your own being passing through it. When we look at a piece of the universe we should feel the same.

  Emily Carr

  Thinking, Hands, Connections

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

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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.

  Emily Carr

  Envelopes, Privacy, Made

  Emily Carr (2002). “The Emily Carr collection”, Key Porter Books

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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.

  Emily Carr

  Spirit, Passing, Passings

  Emily Carr (2009). “Hundreds and Thousands: The Journals of Emily Carr”, p.194, D & M Publishers

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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.

  Emily Carr

  Spring, Inspiration, Old Things

  Emily Carr (2009). “Hundreds and Thousands: The Journals of Emily Carr”, p.49, 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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• 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.

  Emily Carr

  Details, Lines, Totems

  Emily Carr (2009). “Opposite Contraries: The Unknown Journals of Emily Carr and Other Writings”, p.195, D & M Publishers

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• Last night I dreamed that I came face to face with a picture I had done and forgotten, a forest done in simple movement, just forms of trees moving in space. That is the third time I have seen pictures in my dreams, a glint of what I am striving to attain.

  Emily Carr

  Dream, Moving, Simple

  Emily Carr (2009). “Hundreds and Thousands: The Journals of Emily Carr”, p.49, D & M Publishers

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• 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

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• Cedars are terribly sensitive to change of time and light - sometimes they are bluish cold-green, then they turn yellow warm-green - sometimes their boughs flop heavy and sometimes float, then they are fairy as ferns and then they droop, heavy as heartaches.

  Emily Carr

  Change, Light, Yellow

  Emily Carr, Michael Breur, Kerry Mason Dodd (1984). “Sunlight in the shadows: the landscape of Emily Carr”

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• Writing is a strong easement for perplexity. My life is a map, spread out with all the rivers and hills showing.

  Emily Carr

  Strong, Writing, Rivers

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• The artist himself may not think he is religious, but if he is sincere his sincerity in itself is religion.

  Emily Carr

  Religious, Artist, Thinking

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

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• 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

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

  Emily Carr

  Different, Dialect, Half

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

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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.

  Emily Carr

  Density, Juice, Earth

  Emily Carr (2009). “Growing Pains: The Autobiography of Emily Carr”, p.313, D & M Publishers

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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.

  Emily Carr

  Oneness, Movement, Want

  Emily Carr (2009). “Hundreds and Thousands: The Journals of Emily Carr”, p.358, D & M Publishers

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• Indians do not hinder the progress of their dead by embalming or tight coffining. When the spirit has gone they give the body back to the earth. the earth welcomes the body-coaxes new life and beauty from it, hurries over what men shudder at. Lovely tender herbage bursts from the graves, swiftly, exulting over corruption.

  Emily Carr

  Men, Giving, Lovely

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

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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'.

  Emily Carr

  Mind, Trying, Wonder

  Emily Carr (2009). “Hundreds and Thousands: The Journals of Emily Carr”, p.44, D & M Publishers

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• If the air is jam-full of sounds which we tune in with, why should it not also be full of feels and smells and things seen through the spirit, drawing particles from us to them and them to us like magnets?

  Emily Carr

  Air, Drawing, Smell

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

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• 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 to find a symbol for, or maybe it was a concrete form that you have to simplify or distort to meet your ends, but that starting point must pervade the whole.

  Emily Carr

  Ideas, Feelings, Desire

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• There is a need to go deeper, to let myself go completely, to enter into the surroundings in the real fellowship of oneness, to lift above the outer shell, out into the depth and wideness where God is the recognized centre and everything is in time with everything, and the key-note is God.

  Emily Carr

  Real, Keys, Oneness

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

  Emily Carr

  Mistake, Pups, Half

  Emily Carr (2009). “Hundreds and Thousands: The Journals of Emily Carr”, p.54, D & M Publishers

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