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“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.”

Quote by Emily Carr

Book:Growing Pains: The Autobiography of Emily Carr

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Growing Pains: The Autobiography of Emily Carr

Growing Pains is an intimate account of Emily Carr's formative years, exploring her journey as an artist and her experiences in the early 20th century. The book delves into her struggles, inspirations, and the shaping of her unique artistic vision. more

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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. more

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“Oh I do want that thing, that oneness of movement that will catch the thing up into one movement and sing - harmony of life.”

Want Movement Harmony Oneness

Book:Hundreds and Thousands: The Journals of Emily Carr

Source: Hundreds and Thousands: The Journals of Emily Carr

“Rentals sank, living rose. I could not afford help. I must be owner, agent, landlady and janitor. I loathed landladying... I tried in every way to augment my income. Small fruit, hens, rabbits, dogs - pottery... I never painted now - had neither time nor wanting. For about fifteen years I did not paint.”

Way Years Helping Dog Rose Fruit Paint Income Agents Owners Fifteen Rabbits Fifteen Years Hens Pottery Janitor

Author:Emily Carr

“How badly I want that nameless thing! First there must be an idea, a feeling... Maybe it was an abstract idea that you've got to find a symbol for, or maybe it was a concrete form that you have to simplify or distort to meet your ends, but that starting point must pervade the whole.”

Want Firsts Ideas Ends Whole Feelings Form Desire Starting Symbols Abstract Concrete Simplify Starting Point Nameless

Author:Emily Carr

“My mountain is dead. As soon as she has dried, I'll bury her under a decent layer of white paint. But I haven't done with the old lady; far from it!”

Done White Havens Mountain Determination Paint Decent Layers Old Lady

Book:Hundreds and Thousands: The Journals of Emily Carr

Source: Hundreds and Thousands: The Journals of Emily Carr

“Last night I dreamed that I came face to face with a picture I had done and forgotten, a forest done in simple movement, just forms of trees moving in space. That is the third time I have seen pictures in my dreams, a glint of what I am striving to attain.”

Done Dream Lasts Faces Moving Form Night Simple Space Tree Movement Thirds Strive Forgotten Forests Last Night Face To Face Moving In Third Time

Book:Hundreds and Thousands: The Journals of Emily Carr

Source: Hundreds and Thousands: The Journals of Emily Carr

“I thought my mountain was coming this morning. It was near to speaking when suddenly it shifted, sulked, and returned to smallness. It has eluded me again and sits there, puny and dull. Why?”

Morning Failure Mountain Dull Smallness

Author:Emily Carr

“The sun enriched the old poles grandly... The mothers expressed all womanhood - the big wooden hands holding the child were so full of tenderness they had to be distorted enormously in order to contain it all. Womanhood was strong in Kitwancool.”

Children Hands Bigs Mother Order Strong Sun Gender Tenderness Womanhood Hand Holding

Book:The Emily Carr Omnibus

Source: The Emily Carr Omnibus

“I'm half living my life between reality and fantasy at all times.”

Love Life Reality Happiness Half Fantasy All Time Living My Life Fantasy And Reality

Author:Lady Gaga

“Don't take what someone else has made sure of and pretend it's you yourself that have made sure of it till it's yours absolutely by conviction. It's stealing to take it and hypocrisy and you'll fall into a hole.”

Made Fall Conviction Stealing Holes Hypocrisy

Book:Klee Wyck

Source: Klee Wyck

“I sat staring, staring, staring - half lost, learning a new language or rather the same language in a different dialect.”

Different Lost Language Half Staring Sat Dialect

Book:Growing Pains: The Autobiography of Emily Carr

Source: Growing Pains: The Autobiography of Emily Carr