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Canadian - Artist
December 13, 1871
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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.
I sat staring, staring, staring - half lost, learning a new language or rather the same language in a different dialect. So still were the big woods where I sat, sound might not yet have been born.
Trees love to toss and sway; they make such happy noises.
You come into the world alone and you go out of the world alone yet it seems to me you are more alone while living than even going and coming.
You will have to experiment and try things out for yourself and you will not be sure of what you are doing. That's all right, you are feeling your way into the thing.
Perfectly ordered disorder designed with a helter-skelter magnificence.
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