From Carr's "Hundreds and Thousands": God is All There Is

Emily's view of herself and her art: something along the lines of Art = Religion and Artist = Translator of Mute Nature.

An entry from 1930:
TUESDAY, JANUARY 20TH
I have been to the woods at Esquimalt. Day was splendid -- sunshine and blue, blue sky, and two arbutus with tender satin bark, smooth and lovely as naked maidens, silhouetted against the rough pine woods. Very joyous and uplifting, but surface representation does not satisfy me now. I want not "the accidentals of individual surface" but "the universals of basic form, the factor that governs the relationship of part to part, of part to whole and of the whole object to the universal environment of which if forms a part."

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