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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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Famous Emily Carr Quotes

“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.”

Men Art Reality School Understanding White Struggle Seeing England Indian Formal White Man Starks Pierce Schooled Baffled Stark Reality

Book:The Emily Carr Omnibus

Source: The Emily Carr Omnibus

“real art is religion, a search for the beauty of God deep in all things.”

Art Real Art Is All Things

Book:Hundreds and Thousands: The Journals of Emily Carr

Source: Hundreds and Thousands: The Journals of Emily Carr

“Art being so much greater than ourselves, it will not give up once it has taken hold.”

Giving Art Taken Greater Giving Up Art Is Not Giving Up

Book:The Emily Carr Omnibus

Source: The Emily Carr Omnibus

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

Knows Art Stills Peace Let Me Incompetence

Book:Hundreds and Thousands: The Journals of Emily Carr

Source: Hundreds and Thousands: The Journals of Emily Carr

“I think that one's art is a growth inside one. I do not think one can explain growth. It is silent and subtle. One does not keep digging up a plant to see how it grows.”

Thinking Doe Art Grows Growth Quiet Art Is Plant Silent Self Discovery Subtle Digging Digging Ditches

Author: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

“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

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

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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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