Emily Carr Quotes

I realised years ago that no one really knows what they're doing and you kind of just learn by observing.

Sometimes you don't know what is it you want to do until you try it.

I don't know what my path is yet. I'm just walking on it.

Everything is an experiment.

Life is about trying things to see if they work.

All life is an experiment.

no knowledge obtained without risk

I'm lost in a transition. The old is dead, and I don't know what the new is. The only way to find the new is to start different things and see if there's something that can come out of experimentation. It's somewhat unsettling, but it's a hopeful thing in a way. I've been here before, lots of times.

You try things on in life. You wear them for a while, and you see what's next.

There's so much happenstance, so many accidents - stumbling into something and finding it interesting and living with it over time and building on it. It's okay to work from doubt. You need to be willing to not know.

A fool is a man who never tried an experiment in his life.

Whatever I know how to do, I've already done. Therefore I must always do what I do not know how to do.

I didn't think; I experimented.

There are people who say that you can't experiment... That condemns you to failure.

If we knew what it was we were doing, it would not be called research, would it?

When in doubt, make a fool of yourself. There is a microscopically thin line between being brilliantly creative and acting like the most gigantic idiot on earth. So what the hell, leap.

Life, work - it's all very organic and fluid, a laboratory. I always tell people: whatever your thing is, you just have to be in it. Jump in; you'll figure it out.

When choosing between two evils, I always like to try the one I've never tried before.

In all pioneer movements, they underwent a period of experimentation in which mistakes were made which, eventually, according to their proponents, might have led to valuable findings and encouraging results …

Once people feel comfortable with something, they say, 'Let's try it.'

If you're working on ideas, and you don't know what they are, keep working on them. You don't know what they'll be.

Nobody knows what they're doing, so don't be afraid to try things.

I don't really know what I'm doing, to be honest. I come up with things, and maybe it works, and maybe it doesn't, and I try to learn from my castmates and director and from everyone.

No one knows what's a good idea or a bad idea until you try it.

Don't practise what you know - practise what you don't know.