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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 Writing Done Light Looks Made Spirit Tree Trying Way All Things

Famous Emily Carr Quotes

“Sometimes I could quit paint and take to charring. It must be fine to clean perfectly, to shine and polish and know that it could not be done better. In painting that never occurs.”

Knows Sometimes Done Painting Fine Perfection Shining Clean Paint Quitting Polish

Book:Hundreds and Thousands: The Journals of Emily Carr

Source: Hundreds and Thousands: The Journals 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

“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.”

Knows Made God Nature Glory Woods Protection Manifest Tenderness Particles

Book:Hundreds and Thousands: The Journals of Emily Carr

Source: Hundreds and Thousands: The Journals of Emily Carr

“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 can rise above the humility of my failure with an intense desire to search deeper and a blind faith that some day my sight may pierce through the veils that hide. I know God's face is there if I keep my gaze steady enough.”

Ifs Knows May I Can Enough Faces Desire Humility Sight Blind Deeper Intense Steady Veils Rise Above Knowing God Pierce Blind Faith

Book:Hundreds and Thousands: The Journals of Emily Carr

Source: Hundreds and Thousands: The Journals of 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

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

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