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Emily Carr Quotes

Emily Carr quotes

Canadian Artist December 13, 1871 – March 2, 1945

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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
Emily Carr quote: "Trees love to toss and sway; they make such happy noises."
Trees love to toss and sway; they make such happy noises. Emily Carr
Emily Carr quote: "Twenty can't be expected to tolerate sixty in all things, and..."
Twenty can't be expected to tolerate sixty in all things, and sixty gets bored stiff with twenty's eternal love affairs. 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
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
You come into the world alone and you go out of the world alone yet it seems to me you are more alone while living than even going and coming. 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
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
The men resent a woman getting any honour in what they consider is essentially their field. Men painters mostly despise women painters. So I have decided to stop squirming, to throw any honour in with Canada and women. Emily Carr
Emily Carr quote: "Be careful that you do not write or paint anything that is not..."
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
I sat staring, staring, staring - half lost, learning a new language or rather the same language in a different dialect. So still were the big woods where I sat, sound might not yet have been born. Emily Carr
You will have to experiment and try things out for yourself and you will not be sure of what you are doing. That's all right, you are feeling your way into the thing. Emily Carr
Emily Carr quote: "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
Emily Carr quote: "The artist himself may not think he is religious, but if he is..."
The artist himself may not think he is religious, but if he is sincere his sincerity in itself is religion. Emily Carr
Emily Carr quote: "Perfectly ordered disorder designed with a helter-skelter..."
Perfectly ordered disorder designed with a helter-skelter magnificence. Emily Carr

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