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Emily Carr was a renowned Canadian artist known for her unique West Coast Indigenous art style and landscape paintings. Her works profoundly depicted the natural landscapes and Indigenous cultures of British Columbia, Canada, and had a profound impact on the Canadian art world.

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All Earth Feels Want Art Paint Knows Art Is Ifs Painting Soul

Famous Emily Carr Quotes

“Twenty can't be expected to tolerate sixty in all things, and sixty gets bored stiff with twenty's eternal love affairs.”

Eternal All Things Twenties Aging Affair Expected Bored Tolerate Sixty Love Affair Eternal Love

Book:Hundreds and Thousands: The Journals of Emily Carr

Source: Hundreds and Thousands: The Journals of Emily Carr

“Look at the earth crowded with growth, new and old bursting from their strong roots hidden in the silent, live ground, each seed according to its own kind...each one knowing what to do, each one demanding its own rights on the earth. So artist, you too from the depths of your soul...let your roots creep forth, gaining strength.”

Looks Kind Soul Earth Spiritual Artist Strong Growth Knowing Rights Roots Silent Depth Seeds Your Soul Crowded Creeps Bursting Knowing What To Do Strong Roots

Author:Emily Carr

“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.”

Spirit Felt Passing Passings

Book:Hundreds and Thousands: The Journals of Emily Carr

Source: Hundreds and Thousands: The Journals of Emily Carr

“Art is an aspect of God and there is only one God, but different people see Him in different ways. Though He is always the same He doesn't always look the same.”

People Way Looks Art Different Art Is Aspect Different Ways Different Peoples

Book:Hundreds and Thousands: The Journals of Emily Carr

Source: Hundreds and Thousands: The Journals of Emily Carr

“There was neither horizon, cloud, nor sound; of that pink, spread silence even I had become part, belonging as much to sky as to earth.”

Life Inspirational Earth Sound Silence Sky Inspirational Life Clouds Spread Belonging Horizon

Author:Emily Carr

“The artist himself may not think he is religious, but if he is sincere his sincerity in itself is religion.”

Ifs Thinking May Artist Religious Sincere Sincerity

Book:Hundreds and Thousands: The Journals of Emily Carr

Source: Hundreds and Thousands: The Journals of Emily Carr

“Art is art, nature is nature, you cannot improve upon it.... Pictures should be inspired by nature, but made in the soul of the artist. It is the soul of the individual that counts.”

Should Art Made Soul Artist Individual Art Is Inspired Be Inspired

Author:Emily Carr

“Be careful that you do not write or paint anything that is not your own, that you don't know in your own soul.”

Knows Writing Soul Paint Careful Be Careful

Book:Klee Wyck

Source: Klee Wyck

“As the woods are the same, the trees standing in their places, the rocks and the earth... they are always different too, as lights and shadows and seasons and moods pass through them.”

Different Light Earth Tree Rocks Shadow Standing Seasons Woods Mood Light And Shadow

Book:Hundreds and thousands

Source: Hundreds and thousands

“You must be absolutely honest and true in the depicting of a totem for meaning is attached to every line. You must be most particular about detail and proportion.”

Lines Honest Particular Details Proportion Totems

Book:Opposite Contraries: The Unknown Journals of Emily Carr and Other Writings

Source: Opposite Contraries: The Unknown Journals of Emily Carr and Other Writings

“Writing is a strong easement for perplexity. My life is a map, spread out with all the rivers and hills showing.”

Writing Life Is Strong Rivers Spread Hills Maps Perplexity

Author:Emily Carr

“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.”

Feels Born Power Wonderful Canada Patriotic Sublime Rugged Canada Day Happy Canada Day Canada Being Great

Book:Hundreds and Thousands: The Journals of Emily Carr

Source: Hundreds and Thousands: The Journals of Emily Carr

“What a splendid time Woo must have had.”

Author:Emily Carr

“Do not try to do extraordinary things but do ordinary things with intensity.”

Trying Practice Ordinary Extraordinary Intensity Extraordinary Things Ordinary Things

Book:Hundreds and Thousands: The Journals of Emily Carr

Source: Hundreds and Thousands: The Journals of Emily Carr

“Cedars are terribly sensitive to change of time and light - sometimes they are bluish cold-green, then they turn yellow warm-green - sometimes their boughs flop heavy and sometimes float, then they are fairy as ferns and then they droop, heavy as heartaches.”

Sometimes Light Turns Change Cold Green Heavy Warm Sensitive Heartache Fairy Yellow Floats Cedars Ferns

Book:Sunlight in the shadows: the landscape of Emily Carr

Source: Sunlight in the shadows: the landscape of Emily Carr

“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.”

Want Feels Inspiration Seems Spring Contact Old Things Think Spring Spring Inspirational Welcome Spring

Book:Hundreds and Thousands: The Journals of Emily Carr

Source: Hundreds and Thousands: The Journals of Emily Carr

“There is something bigger than fact: the underlying spirit, all it stands for, the mood, the vastness, the wildness.”

Facts Spirit Bigger Mood Vastness Wildness

Book:Hundreds and Thousands: The Journals of Emily Carr

Source: Hundreds and Thousands: The Journals of Emily Carr

“Inspiration is intention obeyed.”

Inspiration Intention

Book:Hundreds and Thousands: The Journals of Emily Carr

Source: Hundreds and Thousands: The Journals of Emily Carr

“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.”

Inspirational Feels Looks Eye Harder

Book:The Emily Carr Omnibus

Source: The Emily Carr Omnibus

“The men resent a woman getting any honour in what they consider is essentially their field. Men painters mostly despise women painters. So I have decided to stop squirming, to throw any honour in with Canada and women.”

Men Fields He Man Decided Gender Painter Canada Honour Despise Resent

Book:Hundreds and Thousands: The Journals of Emily Carr

Source: Hundreds and Thousands: The Journals of Emily Carr

“It is wonderful to feel the grandness of Canada in the raw.”

Feels Wonderful Canada Rugged Canada Day Canada Funny Happy Canada Day Canada Being Great

Book:Hundreds and Thousands: The Journals of Emily Carr

Source: Hundreds and Thousands: The Journals of Emily Carr

About the Author

Born: December 13, 1871
Died: March 2, 1945
Known for: Artist
Quotes: 71

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Hundreds and Thousands: The Journals of Emily CarrRelated source material

The Emily Carr OmnibusRelated source material

Growing Pains: The Autobiography of Emily CarrRelated source material

Klee WyckRelated source material

Opposite Contraries: The Unknown Journals of Emily Carr and Other WritingsRelated source material

Hundreds and thousandsRelated source material

Sunlight in the shadows: the landscape of Emily CarrRelated source material

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