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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

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

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

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

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

Up came the sun, and drank the dew. — Emily Carr

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

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

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

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

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

What a splendid time Woo must have had. — Emily Carr

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

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

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

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

I was at Emily Carr College of Art and Design in Vancouver for four years, and I loved it. — Douglas Coupland

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

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

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

Perfectly ordered disorder designed with a helter-skelter magnificence. — Emily Carr

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

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

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

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

Inspiration is intention obeyed. — Emily Carr

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

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

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

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

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

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