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“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?”

Quote by Emily Carr

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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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“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.”

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Book:The Emily Carr Omnibus

Source: The Emily Carr Omnibus

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

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“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.”

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

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Book:Growing Pains: The Autobiography of Emily Carr

Source: Growing Pains: The Autobiography of Emily Carr

“Bless... the two painting masters who first pointed out to me that there was coming and going among trees, that there was sunlight in shadows.”

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Source: Growing Pains: The Autobiography of Emily Carr

“The memory of Cumshewa is of a great lonesomeness smothered in a blur of rain.”

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“Over and over one must ask oneself the queston, 'What do I want to express? What is the thought behind the saying? What is my ideal, what my objective? What? Why? Why? What?”

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Book:Hundreds and Thousands: The Journals of Emily Carr

Source: Hundreds and Thousands: The Journals of Emily Carr

“I have been sent more ridiculous press notices. People are frequently comparing my work with Van Gogh... I do hope I do not get bloated and self-satisfied. When proud feelings come I step up over them to the realm of work, to the thing I want, the liveness of the thing itself.”

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“There is a need to go deeper, to let myself go completely, to enter into the surroundings in the real fellowship of oneness, to lift above the outer shell, out into the depth and wideness where God is the recognized centre and everything is in time with everything, and the key-note is God.”

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“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.”

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Source: The Emily Carr Omnibus