Emily Carr Quotes & Sayings

“Oh, Spring! I want to go out and feel you and get inspiration. My old things seem dead. I want fresh contacts, more vital searching.”

“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.”

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

“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.”

“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.”

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

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

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

“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.”

“Perfectly ordered disorder designed with a helter-skelter magnificence.”