Emily Carr Quotes - Page 2

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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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• 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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• 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 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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• 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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• 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.

  Emily Carr

  Inspirational, Life, Clouds

  1941 Klee Wyck, ch.17,'Salt Water'.

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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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• Writing is a splendid sorter of... feelings, better even than paint.

  Emily Carr

  Writing, Feel Better, Feelings

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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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• Go out there into the glory of the woods. See God in every particle of them expressing glory and strength and power, tenderness and protection. Know that they are God expressing God made manifest.

  Emily Carr

  God, Nature, Woods

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

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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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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.

  Emily Carr

  Inspirational, Eye, Looks

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

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• The house begins to be a home. The unfamiliar places are beginning to fold the familiar objects into their keeping and to cozy them down. Objects that swore at each other when the movers heaved them into the new rooms have subsided into corners and sit to lick their feet and wash their faces like cats accepting a new home.

  Emily Carr

  Home, Cat, Feet

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