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Perfectly ordered disorder designed with a helter-skelter magnificence.

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Emily Carr
Age: 73 †
Born: 1871
Born: December 13
Died: 1945
Died: March 2
Artist
Autobiographer
Painter
Writer
M. Emily Carr
Emily M. Carr
Klee Wyck
Helter
Skelter
Magnificence
Ordered
Disorder
Designed
Perfectly

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Let me not fuss and fret at my incompetence but be still and know that Thou art God.
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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.
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So still were the big woods where I sat, sound might not yet have been born.
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Writing is a splendid sorter of... feelings, better even than paint.
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What do I want to express? The subject means little. The arrangement, the design, colour, shape, depth, light, space, mood, movement, balance, not one or all of these fills the bill. There is something additional, a breath that draws your breath into its breathing, a heartbeat that pounds on yours, a recognition of the oneness of all things.
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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.
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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!
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Trying to find equivalents for things in words helps me find equivalents in painting.
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What a splendid time Woo must have had.
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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.
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It's all the unwordable things one wants to write about, just as it's all the unformable things one wants to paint - essence.
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There is no right and wrong way to paint except honestly or dishonestly. Honestly is trying for the bigger thing. Dishonestly is bluffing and getting through a smattering of surface representation with no meaning.
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Got a new pup. He is half griffon. The other half is mistake.
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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!
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real art is religion, a search for the beauty of God deep in all things.
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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.
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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.
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