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Emily Carr

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There is something bigger than fact: the underlying spirit, all it stands for, the mood, the vastness, the wildness.


— Emily Carr


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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.


— Emily Carr


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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.


— Emily Carr


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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.


— Emily Carr


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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.


— Emily Carr


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In addition to Klee Wyck Carr wrote The Book of Small (1942) The House of All Sorts (1944) and publiEmily Carrd posthumously Growing Pains (1946) Pause The Heart of a Peacock (1953) and Hundreds and Thousands (1966). On her return to the south Carr organized an exhibit of some of this work and delivered a detailed lecture about the aboriginal villages that Emily Carr had visited which ended with her mission statement:

I glory in our wonderful west and I hope to leave behind me some of the relics of its first primitive greatness. With her ability to travel curtailed Carr's focus shifted from her painting to her writing.

Emily Carr (December 13 1871 – March 2 1945) was a Canadian artist and writer heavily inspired by the indigenous peoples of the Pacific Northwest Coast. The Canadian Encyclopedia describes her as a "Canadian icon".

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