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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

“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.”

Wanted Earth Ready Shapes Dear Volume Abstraction Juice Not Ready Density

Book:Growing Pains: The Autobiography of Emily Carr

Source: Growing Pains: The Autobiography of Emily Carr

“enter into the life of the trees. Know your relationship and understand their language, unspoken, unwritten talk. Answer back to them with their own dumb magnificence, soul words, earth words, the God in you responding to the God in them.”

Knows Soul God Earth Language Answers Tree Dumb Our Relationship Responding Unspoken Magnificence Unwritten

Book:Hundreds and Thousands: The Journals of Emily Carr

Source: Hundreds and Thousands: The Journals of Emily Carr

“The earth is soaked and soggy with rain. Everything is drinking its fill and the surplus gluts the drains. The sky is full of it and lies low over the earth, heavy and dense. Even the sea is wetter than usual!”

Earth Lying Sea Sky Lows Rain Drinking Heavy Usual Drains Dense Surplus

Book:Hundreds and Thousands: The Journals of Emily Carr

Source: Hundreds and Thousands: The Journals of Emily Carr

“The liveness in me just loves to feel the liveness in growing things, in grass and rain and leaves and flowers and sun and feathers and furs and earth and sand and moss.”

Feels Earth Sun Growing Flower Rain Grass Sand Feathers Vitality Fur Mother Nature Moss Growing Things Leaves And Flowers

Book:Hundreds and Thousands: The Journals of Emily Carr

Source: Hundreds and Thousands: The Journals of Emily Carr

“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.”

Men Giving Body Earth Spirit Gone Progress Corruption Lovely Graves Indian New Life Hinder Life And Beauty Embalming

Book:The Emily Carr Omnibus

Source: The Emily Carr Omnibus

“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

“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

“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

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

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

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

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