"Without art, the crudeness of reality would make the world unbearable."

-- George Bernard Shaw

#Inspirational Quotes #Art Quotes #Creativity Quotes

“Not only does a journey transport us over enormous distances, it also causes us to move a few degrees up or down in the social scale. It displaces us physically and also for better or for worse takes us out of our class context, so that the colour and flavour of certain places cannot be dissociated from the always unexpected social level on which we find ourselves in experiencing them.”
“Whatever we are we belong together. Wherever we are, we will find each other. Whoever we are we are forever one.”
“The most serious charge which can be brought against New England is not Puritanism, but February.... Spring is too far away to comfort even by anticipation, and winter long ago lost the charm of novelty. This is the very three a.m. of the calendar.”
“Inspiration is intention obeyed.”

Source : Emily Carr (2009). “Hundreds and Thousands: The Journals of Emily Carr”, p.58, D & M Publishers
“Happiness consists not in having much, but in wanting no more than you have.”
“Our very wretchedness grows dear to us when suffering for one we love.”
“The idea that 'preaching the Gospel' has nothing to do with sex and that 'preaching about sex' has nothing to do with the Gospel betrays layers and layers of seriously misguided thinking. When we divorce God's love from sexual love, as Pope Benedict says, 'the essence of Christianity' becomes 'decisively cut off from the complex fabric of human life.'”
“I liked being challenged by music. It's good for me.”

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