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Inspiration is intention obeyed.

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
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Writing is a splendid sorter of... feelings, better even than paint.
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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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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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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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Do not try to do extraordinary things but do ordinary things with intensity.
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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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There is something bigger than fact: the underlying spirit, all it stands for, the mood, the vastness, the wildness.
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I am always watching for fear of getting feeble and passé in my work. I don't want to trickle out. I want to pour till the pail is empty, the last bit going out in a gush, not in drops.
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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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So still were the big woods where I sat, sound might not yet have been born.
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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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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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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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real art is religion, a search for the beauty of God deep in all things.
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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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Oh I do want that thing, that oneness of movement that will catch the thing up into one movement and sing - harmony of life.
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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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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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