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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

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Emily Carr
Age: 73 †
Born: 1871
Born: December 13
Died: 1945
Died: March 2
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M. Emily Carr
Emily M. Carr
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Twenty can't be expected to tolerate sixty in all things, and sixty gets bored stiff with twenty's eternal love affairs.
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Do not try to do extraordinary things but do ordinary things with intensity.
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Writing is a splendid sorter of... feelings, better even than paint.
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real art is religion, a search for the beauty of God deep in all things.
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Perfectly ordered disorder designed with a helter-skelter magnificence.
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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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The sun enriched the old poles grandly... The mothers expressed all womanhood - the big wooden hands holding the child were so full of tenderness they had to be distorted enormously in order to contain it all. Womanhood was strong in Kitwancool.
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