Emily Carr Quotes

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 Carr

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: artist
  • Nationality: canadian
  • Birth: December 13, 1871 - March 2, 1945

Topics

GrowthArtThinkPlantSilentSee

Every December, I host a tree-trimming party. I serve chili with cornbread and lots of good wine. It's a wonderful party, and it shows how much adults like to play.

Maya Angelou

GoodWinePartyPlayChiliServe

I've always despised the hippies.

John Lydon

AlwaysHippiesDespised

Reading while I'm writing ideally inspires my competitive side. When I read great writers, I want to be a better writer.

Amity Gaige

GreatWritingReadingBetterWant

We educated, privileged lawyers have a professional and moral duty to represent the underrepresented in our society, to ensure that justice exists for all, both legal and economic justice.

Sonia Sotomayor

JusticeSocietyLegalProfessional

I go to a lot of writers conferences and literary festivals that tend to be in college towns or cities, and I'm eager to see what happens if those same texts and those same questions move outside of those areas to smaller rural communities where there are surely people who read and love poetry.

Tracy K. Smith

LovePoetryPeopleCollegeQuestions

I don't have dance history or background.

Rob Kardashian

HistoryDanceBackground

They don't actually see the real world, where 95% of the people with HIV are not treated and are dying. And even though we have some blue sky now in our country, the sky could become cloudy again very soon.

Luc Montagnier

SkyBluePeopleWorldCountryNow

Writing anything is terribly hard but, alas for me, because I am addicted, a heck of a lot of fun. I often am sorry I ever started writing prose, because it is so hard. But I can't stop.

Judy Collins

I AmFunMeWritingSorryStop

I don't want to play 10 years and then die of a heart attack when I'm 40.

Pete Maravich

HeartDiePlayWantYearsAttack

You have to keep your audience in your mind; if you're writing stuff that you know nobody's going to care about then you should rethink what you're doing!

Paullina Simons

MindWritingCareDoingYouKnow

I'm extremely close to my mother.

Sevyn Streeter

MotherCloseExtremely

It'd be really nice to sit down with all the people who have hurt me and tell them all the reasons that they've affected me.

Selena Gomez

PeopleMeHurtDownNiceTell

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