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Trying to find equivalents for things in words helps me find equivalents in painting.

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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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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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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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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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What a splendid time Woo must have had.
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Up came the sun, and drank the dew.
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Inspiration is intention obeyed.
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So still were the big woods where I sat, sound might not yet have been born.
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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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Let me not fuss and fret at my incompetence but be still and know that Thou art God.
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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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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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Perfectly ordered disorder designed with a helter-skelter magnificence.
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real art is religion, a search for the beauty of God deep in all things.
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Do not try to do extraordinary things but do ordinary things with intensity.
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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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