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Let me not fuss and fret at my incompetence but be still and know that Thou art God.

Emily Carr

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Emily Carr
Age: 73 †
Born: 1871
Born: December 13
Died: 1945
Died: March 2
Artist
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Painter
Writer
M. Emily Carr
Emily M. Carr
Klee Wyck
Fuss
Incompetence
Thou
Peace
Art
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Still
Fret

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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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What a splendid time Woo must have had.
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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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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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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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So still were the big woods where I sat, sound might not yet have been born.
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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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Trying to find equivalents for things in words helps me find equivalents in painting.
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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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