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Be careful that you do not write or paint anything that is not your own, that you don't know in your own soul.
— Emily Carr
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Emily Carr
painter, autobiographer, writer, ceramicist, artist
1871 – 1945
Emily Carr was a Canadian artist who was inspired by the monumental art and villages of the First Nations and the landscapes of British Columbia. She also was a vivid writer and chronicler of life in her surroundings, praised for her "complete candour" and "strong prose". Klee Wyck, her first book, published in 1941, won the Governor General's Literary Award for non-fiction and this book and others written by her or compiled from her writings later are still much in demand today.
All Quotes by Emily Carr
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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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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.
— Emily Carr
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I wonder will death be much lonelier than life. Life's an awfully lonesome affair. You can live close against other people yet your lives never touch. 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 coming and going.
— Emily Carr