Growing Our Art (Inspiration from Emily Carr)
“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.”
(Canadian author and painter)
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I love this thought, it is so true & something to remeber through life.
Jess
Janet,
How appropriate a comment: “silent and subtle” from the wondrous painter of the BC woods and totems! I fell in love with her work while traveling there.
Thanks for the reminder!