Quote by Emily Carr
I think that ones art is a growth inside one. I do not think one c

I think that ones 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. – Emily Carr

Other quotes by Emily Carr

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

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Religion
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Lifes 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. – Emily Carr

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alone
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Twenty cant be expected to tolerate sixty in all things, and sixty gets bored stiff with twentys eternal love affairs. – Emily Carr

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Generations
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The art of government is the organisation of idolatry. – George Bernard Shaw

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Art

Art is only a means to life, to the life more abundant. It is not in itself the life more abundant. It merely points the way, something which is overlooked not only by the public, but very often by the artist himself. In becoming an end it defeats itself. – Henry Miller

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Art

Doing art… anything creative, is just a spiritual thing to do. I almost feel like every comic strip I do is sort of a little prayer. And I really feel like the only thing real is love. – Patrick McDonnell, “Super Soul Short: Inside the Mind Behind Mutts,” Super Soul

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Art

A work of art which did not begin in emotion is not art. – Paul Cezanne

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Art

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Those who visit foreign nations, but associate only with their own country-men, change their climate, but not their customs. They see new meridians, but the same men and with heads as empty as their pockets, return home with traveled bodies, but untravelled minds. – Charles Caleb Colton

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Change

It is only the constant exertion and working of our sensitive, intellectual, moral, and physical machinery that keep us from rusting, and so becoming useless. – Charles Simmons

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Some people need to stay at the top. They are afraid to re-start from zero because they fear the critics. – Eric Cantona

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For prayer is nothing else than being on terms of friendship with God. – Saint Teresa of Avila

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