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Emily Carr quotes: Bless ... the two painting masters who first pointed out to me that there was coming and going among trees, that there was sunlight in shadows.

Bless ... the two painting masters who first pointed out to me that there was coming and going among trees, that there was sunlight in shadows.

Emily Carr quotes: 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.

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

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

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

Emily Carr quotes: Be careful that you do not write or paint anything that is not your own, that you don't know in your own soul.

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

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

Emily Carr quotes: The outstanding event was the doing which I am still at. Don't pickle me awayas done.

The outstanding event was the doing which I am still at. Don't pickle me awayas done.

Emily Carr quotes: Got a new pup. He is half griffon. The other half is mistake.

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

Emily Carr quotes: Writing is a splendid sorter of ... feelings, better even than paint.

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

Emily Carr quotes: What a splendid time Woo must have had.

What a splendid time Woo must have had.

Emily Carr quotes: 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 ...

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

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

Emily Carr quotes: Trees love to toss and sway; they make such happy noises.

Trees love to toss and sway; they make such happy noises.

Emily Carr quotes: The memory of Cumshewa is of a great lonesomeness smothered in a blur of rain.

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

Emily Carr quotes: The artist himself may not think he is religious, but if he is sincere his sincerity in itself is religion.

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

Emily Carr quotes: Up came the sun, and drank the dew.

Up came the sun, and drank the dew.

Emily Carr quotes: Trying to find equivalents for things in words helps me find equivalents in painting.

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

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

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 quotes: 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.

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 quotes: Perfectly ordered disorder designed with a helter-skelter magnificence.

Perfectly ordered disorder designed with a helter-skelter magnificence.

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

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

Emily Carr quotes: Twenty can't be expected to tolerate sixty in all things, and sixty gets bored stiff with twenty's eternal love affairs.

Twenty can't be expected to tolerate sixty in all things, and sixty gets bored stiff with twenty's eternal love affairs.

Emily Carr quotes: 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.

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

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

Emily Carr quotes: Inspiration is intention obeyed.

Inspiration is intention obeyed.

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

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

Emily Carr quotes: 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' ...

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

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

Emily Carr quotes: 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

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!

Emily Carr quotes: Oh, the glory of growth, silent, mighty, persistent, inevitable! To awaken, to open up like a flower to the light of a fuller consciousness!

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

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