Quotes by Emily Carr

Emily Carr

Art being so much greater than ourselves, it will not give up once it has taken hold.

Art

Giving Up

Taken

Be careful that you do not write or paint anything that is not your own, that you don’t know in your own soul.

Paint

Soul

Writing

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.

Shadow

Tree

Two

Do not try to do extraordinary things but do ordinary things with intensity.

Ordinary

Practice

Trying

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.

Fall

Hypocrisy

Stealing

Got a new pup. He is half griffon. The other half is mistake.

Half

Mistake

Pups

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.

Desire

Feelings

Ideas

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.

Density

Earth

Juice

I wonder why we are always sort of ashamed of our best parts and try to hide them. We don’t mind ridicule of our ‘sillinesses’ but of our ‘sobers’.

Mind

Trying

Wonder

Indians do not hinder the progress of their dead by embalming or tight coffining. When the spirit has gone they give the body back to the earth. the earth welcomes the body-coaxes new life and beauty from it, hurries over what men shudder at. Lovely tender herbage bursts from the graves, swiftly, exulting over corruption.

Giving

Lovely

Men

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Art

Art Is

Artist

Blur

Canada

Cat

Clouds

Density

Desire

Details

Determination

Dew

Done

Earth

Excuse

Facts

Fall

Feel Better

Feelings

Feels

Feet

Giving

Giving Up

Half

Helping

Home

Hypocrisy

Ideas

Incompetence

Inspiration

Inspirational

Intention

Joy

Juice

Keys

Life

Lines

Lovely

Memories

Men

Mind

Mistake

Morning

Mountain

Old Things

Oneness

Ordinary

Paint

Painting

Passing

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Quotes by Emily Carr

Emily Carr

Art being so much greater than ourselves, it will not give up once it has taken hold.

Be careful that you do not write or paint anything that is not your own, that you don’t know in your own soul.

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.

Do not try to do extraordinary things but do ordinary things with intensity.

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.

Got a new pup. He is half griffon. The other half is mistake.

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.

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.

I wonder why we are always sort of ashamed of our best parts and try to hide them. We don’t mind ridicule of our ‘sillinesses’ but of our ‘sobers’.

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