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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. ”

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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

The artist himself may not think he is religious, but if he is sincere his sincerity in itself is religion.

~ Emily Carr

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

Be careful that you do not write or paint anything that is not your own, that you don't know in your own soul.

~ Emily Carr