Trying to find equivalents for things in words helps me find equivalents in painting. Emily Carr More Quotes by Emily Carr More Quotes From Emily Carr There is a side of friendship that develops better and stronger by correspondence than contact.... The absence of the flesh in writing perhaps brings souls nearer. Emily Carr strongersoulwriting It is wonderful to feel the grandness of Canada in the raw. Emily Carr canadawonderfulfeels Go out there into the glory of the woods. See God in every particle of them expressing glory and strength and power, tenderness and protection. Know that they are God expressing God made manifest. Emily Carr woodsnaturegod 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 old-thingsinspirationspring 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 onenessspacemean Art is an aspect of God and there is only one God, but different people see Him in different ways. Though He is always the same He doesn't always look the same. Emily Carr differentpeopleart Writing is a strong easement for perplexity. My life is a map, spread out with all the rivers and hills showing. Emily Carr strongwritingrivers Oh, I wonder if I will ever feel the burst of birth-joy, that knowing that the indescribable, joyous thing that has wooed and wond me has passed through my life and produced one atom of the great reality. Emily Carr knowingjoyreality 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 canadafieldsmen You always feel when you look it straight in the eye that you could have put more into it, could have let yourself go and dug harder. Emily Carr eyeinspirationallooks Oh I do want that thing, that oneness of movement that will catch the thing up into one movement and sing - harmony of life. Emily Carr onenessmovementwant There was neither horizon, cloud, nor sound; of that pink, spread silence even I had become part, belonging as much to sky as to earth. Emily Carr cloudsinspirationallife 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? Emily Carr idealsbehindswant What a splendid time Woo must have had. Emily Carr splendid I can rise above the humility of my failure with an intense desire to search deeper and a blind faith that some day my sight may pierce through the veils that hide. I know God's face is there if I keep my gaze steady enough. Emily Carr humilitysightdesire 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. Emily Carr selffeelingspeople The biggest part of painting perhaps is faith, and waiting receptively, content to go any way, not planning or forcing. The fear, though, is laziness. It is so easy to drift and finally be tossed up on the beach, derelict. Emily Carr lazinesswaitingbeach Got a new pup. He is half griffon. The other half is mistake. Emily Carr pupshalfmistake 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. Emily Carr strongmotherchildren 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. Emily Carr onenesskeysreal
