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Emily Carr Quotes

«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.»
«There is something bigger than fact: the underlying spirit, all it stands for, the mood, the vastness, the wildness.»
«It is wonderful to feel the grandness of Canada in the raw»
«You will have to experiment and try things out for yourself and you will not be sure of what you are doing. That's all right, you are feeling your way into the thing.»
«Cedars are terribly sensitive to change of time and light - sometimes they are bluish cold-green, then they turn yellow warm-green - sometimes their boughs flop heavy and sometimes float, then they are fairy as ferns and then they droop, heavy as heartaches.»
«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.»
«Twenty can't be expected to tolerate sixty in all things, and sixty gets bored stiff with twenty's eternal love affairs.»
Author: Emily Carr (Artist, Writer) | Keywords: stiff, tolerate
«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.»
«How badly I want that nameless thing! First there must be an idea, a feeling... Maybe it was an abstract idea that you've got to find a symbol for, or maybe it was a concrete form that you have to simplify or distort to meet your ends, but that starting point must pervade the whole.»
«Perfectly ordered disorder designed with a helter-skelter magnificence.»

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