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

Emily Carr

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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
Intensity
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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 was neither horizon, cloud, nor sound of that pink, spread silence even I had become part, belonging as much to sky as to earth.
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Perfectly ordered disorder designed with a helter-skelter magnificence.
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Be careful that you do not write or paint anything that is not your own, that you don't know in your own soul.
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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.
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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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