Quotes of Emily Carr - somelinesforyou

“ Let the movement be slow and savour of solidity at the base and rise quivering to the tree tops and to the sky, always rising to meet it joyously and tremulously… the spirit must be… perpetually moving through, carrying on and inducing a thirst for more and a desire to rise. ”

- Emily Carr

“ I sat staring, staring, staring - half lost, learning a new language or rather the same language in a different dialect. So still were the big woods where I sat, sound might not yet have been born. ”

- Emily Carr

“ Life's an awfully lonesome affair. You come into the world alone and you go out of the world alone yet it seems to me you are more alone while living than even going and coming. ”

- Emily Carr

“ Life's an awfully lonesome affair. You come into the world alone and you go out of the world alone yet it seems to me you are more alone while living than even going and coming. ”

- Emily Carr

“ What do I want to express? The subject means little. The arrangement, the design, colour, shape, depth, light, space, mood, movement, balance, not one or all of these fills the bill. There is something additional, a breath that draws your breath into its breathing, a heartbeat that pounds on yours, a recognition of the oneness of all things. ”

- 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. ”

- 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. ”

- Emily Carr

“ Perfectly ordered disorder designed with a helter-skelter magnificence. ”

- 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. ”

- Emily Carr

“ The men resent a woman getting any honour in what they consider is essentially their field. Men painters mostly despise women painters. So I have decided to stop squirming, to throw any honour in with Canada and women. ”

- Emily Carr

“ Life's an awfully lonesome affair. You come into the world alone and you go out of the world alone yet it seems to me you are more alone while living than even going and coming. ”

- 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! ”

- 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. ”

- 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. ”

- 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! ”

- Emily Carr

“ I think that one's art is a growth inside one. I do not think one can explain growth. It is silent and subtle. One does not keep digging up a plant to see how it grows. ”

- Emily Carr

“ I think that one's art is a growth inside one. I do not think one can explain growth. It is silent and subtle. One does not keep digging up a plant to see how it grows. ”

- 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. ”

- Emily Carr

“ Trees love to toss and sway; they make such happy noises. ”

- Emily Carr

“ You must be absolutely honest and true in the depicting of a totem for meaning is attached to every line. You must be most particular about detail and proportion. ”

- Emily Carr

“ Perfectly ordered disorder designed with a helter-skelter magnificence. ”

- Emily Carr

“ Trees love to toss and sway; they make such happy noises. ”

- 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. ”

- Emily Carr

“ I sat staring, staring, staring - half lost, learning a new language or rather the same language in a different dialect. So still were the big woods where I sat, sound might not yet have been born. ”

- Emily Carr

“ The men resent a woman getting any honour in what they consider is essentially their field. Men painters mostly despise women painters. So I have decided to stop squirming, to throw any honour in with Canada and women. ”

- 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. ”

- Emily Carr

“ You must be absolutely honest and true in the depicting of a totem for meaning is attached to every line. You must be most particular about detail and proportion. ”

- Emily Carr

“ Life's an awfully lonesome affair. You come into the world alone and you go out of the world alone yet it seems to me you are more alone while living than even going and coming. ”

- Emily Carr

“ I think that one's art is a growth inside one. I do not think one can explain growth. It is silent and subtle. One does not keep digging up a plant to see how it grows. ”

- 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! ”

- Emily Carr
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