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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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Emily Carr
Age: 73 †
Born: 1871
Born: December 13
Died: 1945
Died: March 2
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M. Emily Carr
Emily M. Carr
Klee Wyck
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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 is something bigger than fact: the underlying spirit, all it stands for, the mood, the vastness, the wildness.
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Do not try to do extraordinary things but do ordinary things with intensity.
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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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Let me not fuss and fret at my incompetence but be still and know that Thou art God.
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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 house begins to be a home. The unfamiliar places are beginning to fold the familiar objects into their keeping and to cozy them down. Objects that swore at each other when the movers heaved them into the new rooms have subsided into corners and sit to lick their feet and wash their faces like cats accepting a new home.
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Rentals sank, living rose. I could not afford help. I must be owner, agent, landlady and janitor. I loathed landladying... I tried in every way to augment my income. Small fruit, hens, rabbits, dogs - pottery... I never painted now - had neither time nor wanting. For about fifteen years I did not paint.
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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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Oh, Spring! I want to go out and feel you and get inspiration. My old things seem dead. I want fresh contacts, more vital searching.
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real art is religion, a search for the beauty of God deep in all things.
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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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So still were the big woods where I sat, sound might not yet have been born.
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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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What a splendid time Woo must have had.
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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, 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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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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Inspiration is intention obeyed.
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Trying to find equivalents for things in words helps me find equivalents in painting.
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