Emily Carr Quotes

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.

life world living affair

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

wonderful feel canada

Cedars are terribly sensitive to change of time and light - sometimes they are bluish cold-green, then they turn yellow warm-green - sometimes their boughs flop heavy and sometimes float, then they are fairy as ferns and then they droop, heavy as heartaches.

change time light fairy sensitive heavy

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

eternal affairs things love

Perfectly ordered disorder designed with a helter-skelter magnificence.

disorder

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.

growth art

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

religion

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.

women men