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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

“If the air is jam-full of sounds which we tune in with, why should it not also be full of feels and smells and things seen through the spirit, drawing particles from us to them and them to us like magnets?”

Ifs Feels Should Spirit Sound Air Smell Drawing Tunes Particles Jam Magnet

Book:Hundreds and Thousands: The Journals of Emily Carr

Source: Hundreds and Thousands: The Journals of Emily Carr

“When you really think about your hand you begin to realize its connection, to sense the hum of your own being passing through it. When we look at a piece of the universe we should feel the same.”

Thinking Feels Should Looks Hands Universe Realizing Pieces Connections Passing Passings Passing Through

Book:Hundreds and Thousands: The Journals of Emily Carr

Source: Hundreds and Thousands: The Journals of Emily Carr

“Oh, I wonder if I will ever feel the burst of birth-joy, that knowing that the indescribable, joyous thing that has wooed and wond me has passed through my life and produced one atom of the great reality.”

Ifs Feels Reality Joy Wonder Knowing Birth Atoms Joyous Indescribable

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

“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

“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

“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

“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

The Emily Carr collectionRelated source material

The House of All SortsRelated source material

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