Quotes by Emily Carr

“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.”

“Oh, but you must travel through those woods again and again... said a shadow at the window... and you must be lucky to avoid the wolf every time...But the wolf... the wolf only needs enough luck to...”

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

“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.”

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

“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 w...”

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

“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.”

“I married my love in the springtime, / but by summer hed locked me away. / Hed murdered me dead by the autumn, / and by winter I was naught but decay”

“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.”

“I married my love in the springtime, / but by summer he’d locked me away. / He’d murdered me dead by the autumn, / and by winter I was naught but decay”

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

“I wonder will death be much lonelier than life. Life's an awfully lonesome affair. You can live close against other people yet your lives never touch. You come into the world alone and you go out o...”