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Trees love to toss and sway; they make such happy noises.

~Emily Carr

Topics: Happy Love Make Noises Sway Toss Trees

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It is wonderful to feel the grandness of Canada in the raw.

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Topics: Canada Feel Raw Wonderful

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I sat staring, staring, staring - half lost, learning a new language or rather the same language in a different dialect. So still were the big woods where I sat, sound might not yet have been born.

~Emily Carr

Topics: Been Big Born Dialect Different Half Language Learning Lost Might New Rather Same Sat Sound Staring Still Were Where Woods

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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.

~Emily Carr

Topics: Doing Experiment Feeling Out Right Sure Thing Things Try Way Will You Your Yourself

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There is something bigger than fact: the underlying spirit, all it stands for, the mood, the vastness, the wildness.

~Emily Carr

Topics: Bigger Fact Mood Something Spirit Stands Than Underlying Vastness Wildness

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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.

~Emily Carr

Topics: Art Digging Does Explain Grows Growth How Inside Keep Plant See Silent Subtle Think Up I Think

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You must be absolutely honest and true in the depicting of a totem for meaning is attached to every line. You must be most particular about detail and proportion.

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Topics: About Absolutely Attached Depicting Detail Every Honest Line Meaning Most Must Particular Proportion Totem True You

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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

Topics: Always Could Dug Eye Feel Go Harder Look More Put Straight You Yourself

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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.

~Emily Carr

Topics: Alone Come Coming Even Go Going Living Me More Out Seems Than While World You

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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

Topics: Any Canada Consider Decided Despise Essentially Field Getting Honour Men Mostly Painters Resent Stop Throw Woman Women

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Biography

Nationality: Canadian

Type: Artist

Born: December 13th, 1871

Died: March 2nd, 1945

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