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Emily Carr Quotes - Page 3

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.

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

Got a new pup. He is half griffon. The other half is mistake.

Emily Carr (2009). “Hundreds and Thousands: The Journals of Emily Carr”, p.54, D & M Publishers

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

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

Twenty can't be expected to tolerate sixty in all things, and sixty gets bored stiff with twenty's eternal love affairs.

Emily Carr (2009). “Hundreds and Thousands: The Journals of Emily Carr”, p.199, D & M Publishers

The outstanding event was the doing which I am still at. Don't pickle me awayas done.

c.1940 Quoted in Ira Dilworth's foreword to Klee Wyck (1951edn).

The memory of Cumshewa is of a great lonesomeness smothered in a blur of rain.

Emily Carr (2009). “Klee Wyck”, p.40, D & M Publishers