Emily Carr Quotes About Painting

• Sometimes I could quit paint and take to charring. It must be fine to clean perfectly, to shine and polish and know that it could not be done better. In painting that never occurs.

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  Emily Carr (2009). “Hundreds and Thousands: The Journals of Emily Carr”, p.92, D & M Publishers

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• 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.

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  Emily Carr (2009). “Hundreds and Thousands: The Journals of Emily Carr”, p.247, D & M Publishers

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• Bless... the two painting masters who first pointed out to me that there was coming and going among trees, that there was sunlight in shadows.

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  Emily Carr (2009). “Growing Pains: The Autobiography of Emily Carr”, p.314, D & M Publishers

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• Trying to find equivalents for things in words helps me find equivalents in painting.

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  Emily Carr (2009). “Hundreds and Thousands: The Journals of Emily Carr”, p.46, D & M Publishers

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• 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.

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  Emily Carr (2009). “Opposite Contraries: The Unknown Journals of Emily Carr and Other Writings”, p.76, D & M Publishers

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