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 CarrRead
Art is art, nature is nature, you cannot improve upon it.... Pictures should be inspired by nature, but made in the soul of the artist. It is the soul of the individual that counts.
Interpretation
What this quote means
Art reflects nature but should be a personal expression of the artist's inner self.
This quote emphasizes the belief that while nature is a perfect template for artistic inspiration, true artistry comes from the personal experiences and emotions of the artist. It suggests that the essence of art lies in the unique perspective and feeling that an artist brings to their work, rather than merely replicating nature.
Themes
ArtNatureSoulExpressionArtist
In practice
Example use cases
In a speech about creativity at a local art center.
More from Emily Carr
All quotes βYou must be absolutely honest and true in the depicting of a totem for meaning is attached to every line. You must be most particular about detail and proportion.
Emily CarrRead
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.
Emily CarrRead
There was neither horizon, cloud, nor sound; of that pink, spread silence even I had become part, belonging as much to sky as to earth.
Emily CarrRead
It is wonderful to feel the grandness of Canada in the raw.
Emily CarrRead
Indians do not hinder the progress of their dead by embalming or tight coffining. When the spirit has gone they give the body back to the earth. the earth welcomes the body-coaxes new life and beauty from it, hurries over what men shudder at. Lovely tender herbage bursts from the graves, swiftly, exulting over corruption.
Emily CarrRead
Similar quotes
For many years, I've always been attached to what they call the Great American Songbook, and Kern was a great leader of that because he had the classical training of Europe. He impressed all the greatest composers, like Cole Porter and Gershwin. They couldn't believe he was writing the songs he was writing.
Tony BennettRead
When I paint green, it doesn't mean grass; when I paint blue, it doesn't mean sky.
Henri MatisseRead
The public history of modern art is the story of conventional people not knowing what they are dealing with.
Golda MeirRead
Sometimes I think creativity is magic; it's not a matter of finding an idea, but allowing the idea to find you.
Maya LinRead
To write a novel is to embark on a quest that is very romantic. People have visions, and the next step is to execute them. That's a very romantic project. Like Edvard Munch's strange dreamlike canvases where people are stylized, like 'The Scream.' Munch must have had that vision in a dream, he never saw it.
Joyce Carol OatesRead
To me, beauty is inclusion - every size, every color - that's the world I live in.
Prabal GurungRead