99 Quotes by Emily Carr

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.

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

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.

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

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.

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

I sat staring, staring, staring - half lost, learning a new language or rather the same language in a different dialect.

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

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.