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About the Emily Carr
Emily Carrwas a Canadian artist who was inspired by the monumental art and villages of the First Nations and the landscapes of British Columbia. She also was a vivid writer and chronicler of life in her surroundings, praised for her “complete candour” and “strong prose”. Klee Wyck, her first book, published in 1941, won the Governor General’s Literary Award for non-fiction and this book and others written by her or compiled from her writings later are still much in demand today.
Carr’s keynote paintings, such as The Indian Church (1929), were not widely known in Canada at first. But her stature as one of Canada’s most important artists continued to grow. Today, she is considered a cherished figure of Canadian arts and letters. Scholars and the public alike regard her as a Canadian national treasure and the Canadian Encyclopedia describes her as a Canadian icon. She has been designated a National Historic Person and had a Minor planet 5688 Kleewyck named after her anglicized native name. As one scholar in her 2014 book on Carr, put it, “we love her and she continues to speak to us”.
Emily Carr lived most of her life in the city in which she was born and died, Victoria, British Columbia.
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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.
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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.
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It is wonderful to feel the grandness of Canada in the raw.
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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.
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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.
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Perfectly ordered disorder designed with a helter-skelter magnificence.
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The artist himself may not think he is religious, but if he is sincere his sincerity in itself is religion.
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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.
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Be careful that you do not write or paint anything that is not your own, that you don’t know in your own soul.
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Trees love to toss and sway; they make such happy noises.
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Twenty can’t be expected to tolerate sixty in all things, and sixty gets bored stiff with twenty’s eternal love affairs.
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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.
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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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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.
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There is something bigger than fact: the underlying spirit, all it stands for, the mood, the vastness, the wildness.
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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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