99 Quotes by Emily Carr

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.

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.

Perfectly ordered disorder designed with a helter-skelter magnificence.

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

There are no words, no paints to express all this, only a beautiful dumbness in the soul, life speaking to life.

Bless... the two painting masters who first pointed out to me (raw young pupil that I was) that there was coming and going among trees, that there was sunlight in shadows.

Bless... the two painting masters who first pointed out to me that there was coming and going among trees, that there was sunlight in shadows.

The memory of Cumshewa is of a great lonesomeness smothered in a blur of rain.

Over and over one must ask oneself the queston, 'What do I want to express? What is the thought behind the saying? What is my ideal, what my objective? What? Why? Why? What?