"I can't think that holiness means unhappiness. Seems to me real holiness should mean lasting happiness. Thats the kind I want to get hold of .That's the kind of holiness I want to come into my painting too-praise, every bit of nature praising God....
"'Everything, even inanimate things, are so made that they continually give praise and all quite spontaneously'...
"One can not always sing in is heart while he works but a singing heart, I am convinced, and the mixing of joy and praise with the very paints, as well as the ideals and inspirations one receives, and the forgetting of oneself is the only way...
"We must have awe and reverence but above all LOVE of God, if we want to express his creation."
-Emily Carr, Feb.18th 1933 'Hundreds and Thousands'