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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'.
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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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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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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Trying to find equivalents for things in words helps me find equivalents in painting.
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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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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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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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Perfectly ordered disorder designed with a helter-skelter magnificence.
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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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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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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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Writing is a splendid sorter of... feelings, better even than paint.
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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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The artist himself may not think he is religious, but if he is sincere his sincerity in itself is religion.
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Got a new pup. He is half griffon. The other half is mistake.
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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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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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