Emily Carr Quotes

Music is the reaching out towards the utmost realities by means of ordered sound.

The rhythm of relations of color and size makes the absolute appear in the relativity of time and space.

Order is the shape upon which beauty depends.

The ideal friendship is to feel as one while remaining two.

Form must have a content, and that content must be linked with nature.

In life, as in art, the beautiful moves in curves.

Architecture produces a musical mood in our inner being, and we notice that even though the elements of architecture and music appear to be so alien in the outer world, through this musical mood engendered in us, our experience of architecture brings about a reconciliation, a balance between these two elements.

The essence of architecture is form and space, and light is the essential element to the key to architectural design, probably more important than anything. Technology and materials are secondary.

Oh I do want that thing, that oneness of movement that will catch the thing up into one movement and sing - harmony of life.

White. A blank page or canvas. The challenge. Bring order to the whole Through design, composition, tension, balance, light, and harmony.

Light is the left hand of darkness and darkness the right hand of light. Two are one, life and death, lying together like lovers in kemmer, like hands joined together, like the end and the way.

Your voice and music are the same to me.

Yoga means union, that in your experience, everything has become one.

Love is the life of the soul. It is the harmony of the universe.

Music means harmony, harmony means love. Love means God.

There is a deep human need for beauty and if you ignore that need in architecture your buildings will not last

In India when we meet and part we often say, "Namaste," which means: I honor the place in you where the entire universe resides; I honor the place in you where the entire universe resides; I honor the place in you of love, of light, of truth, of peace. I honor the place within you where if you are in that place in you and I am in that place in me, there is only one of us�.. "Namaste."

My husband and I are very different. Our company is called Syzygy Industries, which can mean a pair of opposites. And that's exactly what we are. Yet there is obviously a very strong pull toward each other.

Most of the early Christian writers thought the text "I and my Father are one," was to be understood of an unity or harmony of disposition only. Thus Tertullian observes, that the expression is unum , one thing, not one person; and he explains it to mean unity, likeness, conjunction, and of the love that the Father bore to the Son. Origen says, "let him consider that text, 'all that believed were of one heart and of one soul,' and then he will understand this, 'I and my Father are one".

There is not a fragment in all nature, for every relative fragment of one thing is a full harmonious unit in itself.

The people that weep before my paintings are having the same religious experience that I had when I painted it.

Pure art exists only on the level of instant response to pure life

Love is the internal, affectively apprehended, aspect of the affinity which links and draws together the elements of the world... Love, in fact, is the expression and the agent of universal synthesis.

Music is the only thing keeping the planet together