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

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Emily Carr
Age: 73 †
Born: 1871
Born: December 13
Died: 1945
Died: March 2
Artist
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Painter
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M. Emily Carr
Emily M. Carr
Klee Wyck
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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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You must be absolutely honest and true in the depicting of a totem for meaning is attached to every line. You must be most particular about detail and proportion.
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Go out there into the glory of the woods. See God in every particle of them expressing glory and strength and power, tenderness and protection. Know that they are God expressing God made manifest.
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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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Up came the sun, and drank the dew.
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The foolish square calves pretend to be frightened of our train. Bluffers! Haven't they seen it every day since they were born? It's just an excuse to shake the joy out of their heels.
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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.
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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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Indian Art broadened my seeing, loosened the formal tightness I had learned in England's schools. Its bigness and stark reality baffled my white man's understanding... I had been schooled to see outsides only, not struggle to pierce.
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Perfectly ordered disorder designed with a helter-skelter magnificence.
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The artist himself may not think he is religious, but if he is sincere his sincerity in itself is religion.
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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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Got a new pup. He is half griffon. The other half is mistake.
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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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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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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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Do not try to do extraordinary things but do ordinary things with intensity.
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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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Writing is a splendid sorter of... feelings, better even than paint.
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The biggest part of painting perhaps is faith, and waiting receptively, content to go any way, not planning or forcing. The fear, though, is laziness. It is so easy to drift and finally be tossed up on the beach, derelict.
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