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'. Emily Carr More Quotes by Emily Carr More Quotes From 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 patrioticsublimepower Art is art, nature is nature, you cannot improve upon it.... Pictures should be inspired by nature, but made in the soul of the artist. It is the soul of the individual that counts. Emily Carr inspiredsoulart Do not try to do extraordinary things but do ordinary things with intensity. Emily Carr practiceordinarytrying Look at the earth crowded with growth, new and old bursting from their strong roots hidden in the silent, live ground, each seed according to its own kind...each one knowing what to do, each one demanding its own rights on the earth. So artist, you too from the depths of your soul...let your roots creep forth, gaining strength. Emily Carr strongartistspiritual The liveness in me just loves to feel the liveness in growing things, in grass and rain and leaves and flowers and sun and feathers and furs and earth and sand and moss. Emily Carr mossflowerrain There is something bigger than fact: the underlying spirit, all it stands for, the mood, the vastness, the wildness. Emily Carr vastnessspiritfacts So still were the big woods where I sat, sound might not yet have been born. Emily Carr dialectsilencesound enter into the life of the trees. Know your relationship and understand their language, unspoken, unwritten talk. Answer back to them with their own dumb magnificence, soul words, earth words, the God in you responding to the God in them. Emily Carr dumbgodtree It's all the unwordable things one wants to write about, just as it's all the unformable things one wants to paint - essence. Emily Carr essencewantwriting 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 politicallonelinessworld I am always watching for fear of getting feeble and passé in my work. I don't want to trickle out. I want to pour till the pail is empty, the last bit going out in a gush, not in drops. Emily Carr going-outlastswant Art being so much greater than ourselves, it will not give up once it has taken hold. Emily Carr giving-uptakenart As the woods are the same, the trees standing in their places, the rocks and the earth... they are always different too, as lights and shadows and seasons and moods pass through them. Emily Carr rockslighttree 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 growthartthinking There is no right and wrong way to paint except honestly or dishonestly. Honestly is trying for the bigger thing. Dishonestly is bluffing and getting through a smattering of surface representation with no meaning. Emily Carr paintingtryingway real art is religion, a search for the beauty of God deep in all things. Emily Carr art-isrealart Inspiration is intention obeyed. Emily Carr intentioninspiration 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. Emily Carr simpledreammoving Writing is a splendid sorter of... feelings, better even than paint. Emily Carr feel-betterfeelingswriting Oh, the glory of growth, silent, mighty, persistent, inevitable! To awaken, to open up like a flower to the light of a fuller consciousness! Emily Carr growthlightflower
