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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.
Emily Carr
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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
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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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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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real art is religion, a search for the beauty of God deep in all things.
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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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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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Trying to find equivalents for things in words helps me find equivalents in painting.
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It is wonderful to feel the grandness of Canada in the raw, not because she is Canada but because she's something sublime that you were born into, some great rugged power that you are a part of.
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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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What a splendid time Woo must have had.
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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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Perfectly ordered disorder designed with a helter-skelter magnificence.
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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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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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I wonder why we are always sort of ashamed of our best parts and try to hide them. We don't mind ridicule of our 'sillinesses' but of our 'sobers'.
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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 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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Writing is a splendid sorter of... feelings, better even than paint.
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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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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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