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Ellen Neel
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“If the art of my people is to take its rightful place alongside other Canadian art, it must be a living medium of expression. We, the Indian artists, must be allowed to create! We must be allowed to use new and modern techniques; new and modern tools; new and modern materials. For in every instance creative capacity has followed the discovery and use of better material. I do not mean that we should discard the old, only that we be allowed to use the new.”
Ellen Neel (1916–1966) first seen 1948 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Speaking at the 1948 Conference of Native Indian Affairs, as quoted in and
“Our art continues to live, for not only is it part and parcel of us, it can be a powerful factor in combining the best part of Indian culture into the fabric of a truly Canadian art form.”
Ellen Neel (1916–1966) first seen 1948 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Speaking at the 1948 Conference of Native Indian Affairs, as quoted in
“In the beginning, the men of the Pacific Coast were born men and the totems were brown totems made of brown wood. With the coming of the white men came other white things also and among these white things was a white rooster”
Ellen Neel (1916–1966) said by 1966 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“[My grandfather] used to draw out a drawing and then make me copy it over and over. When my lines wavered, he would draw over them. He said I had to learn to do it his way. Sometimes I would cry. There was so much to learn. These drawings here—they were made when I was only ten or eleven years old—most are my grandfather’s but some are mine. This one is the Thunderbird-under-the sea . . . he has something like scales on . . . you can see my lines underneath and then where he went over the top to show me the right way. He had dozens of variations of the thunderbird and he called each one differently according to the pattern of the painting and carving.”
Ellen Neel (1916–1966) said by 1966 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source