Emily Carr
Artist
1871-12-13
Quotes by Emily Carr
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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Twenty can't be expected to tolerate sixty in all things, and sixty gets bored stiff with twenty's eternal love affairs.
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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.
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There is something bigger than fact: the underlying spirit, all it stands for, the mood, the vastness, the wildness.
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