Emily Carr

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. ”

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

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. ”

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

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

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 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. ”

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

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. ”