Emily Carr Quotes About Art

• Indian Art broadened my seeing, loosened the formal tightness I had learned in England's schools. Its bigness and stark reality baffled my white man's understanding... I had been schooled to see outsides only, not struggle to pierce.

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  Emily Carr, Doris Shadbolt (1993). “The Emily Carr Omnibus”, University of Washington Press

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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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• real art is religion, a search for the beauty of God deep in all things.

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  Emily Carr (2009). “Hundreds and Thousands: The Journals of Emily Carr”, p.238, D & M Publishers

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• 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.

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  Emily Carr (2009). “Hundreds and Thousands: The Journals of Emily Carr”, p.159, D & M Publishers

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

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  Emily Carr, Doris Shadbolt (1993). “The Emily Carr Omnibus”, University of Washington Press

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• Let me not fuss and fret at my incompetence but be still and know that Thou art God.

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  Emily Carr (2009). “Hundreds and Thousands: The Journals of Emily Carr”, p.64, D & M Publishers

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• 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.

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