Best Quotes by Emily Carr (Top 10)

  1. 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.
  2. There is something bigger than fact: the underlying spirit, all it stands for, the mood, the vastness, the wildness.
  3. 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.
  4. 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.
  5. Inspiration is intention obeyed.
  6. If you're going to lick the icing off somebody else's cake you won't be nourished and it won't do you any good,—or you might find the cake had caraway seeds and you hate them.
  7. 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.
  8. The artist himself may not think he is religious, but if he is sincere his sincerity in itself is religion.
  9. Perfectly ordered disorder designed with a helter-skelter magnificence.
  10. Be careful that you do not write or paint anything that is not your own, that you don't know in your own soul.

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