An example of Emily Carr's beautiful paintings.
PURLS OF WISDOM
"Color is the real substance for me, the real underlying thing which drawing and line are not."
--Sam Francis
"The great man is one who never loses his child's heart."
-- Philosopher Mencius
"We wear our attitudes in our bodies."
-- Patti Davis
Colour embodies an enormous though unexplored power which can effect the entire human body as physical organism.
Colour is a means of exercising direct influence upon the soul.
--V. Kandinsky
I found I could say things with color and shapes that I couldn't say any other way.. things I had no words for.
--Georgia O'Keeffe
Nothing is really work unless you'd rather be doing something else.
--J. M. Barrie, Peter Pan
Faith is like driving a car at night. You never see further than your headlights, but you can make the whole trip that way.
--E. L. Doctorow
Somebody once said that people become artists
because they have a certain kind of energy to release, and that rings true to me.
--Dale Chihuly
2 comments:
I read this book last year and enjoyed reading about her life and art. I was so pleased to see some of her paintings when I visited the Seattle Art Museum last October. Thanks for reminding me!! Ginger
cheryl, i'm just posting to ask "where ya at?" hoping all is well!
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