the artist is not separate from the work and therefore cannot judge it. — Madeleine L'Engle Copy Share Image
Great art transcends its culture and touches on that which is eternal. — Madeleine L'Engle Copy Share Image
artists ... all have a need that cannot be met by another human being. — Madeleine L'Engle Copy Share Image
Great art always transcends its culture, while lesser art merely reflects it. — Madeleine L'Engle Copy Share Image
When the bright angel dominates, out comes a great work of art, a Michelangelo David or a Beethoven symphony. — Madeleine L'Engle Copy Share Image
Artistic temperament sometimes seems a battleground, a dark angel of destruction and a bright angel of creativity wrestling. — Madeleine L'Engle Copy Share Image
An artist is someone who cannot rest, who can never rest as long as there is one suffering creature in the world. — Madeleine L'Engle Copy Share Image
“to look at a work of art and then to make a judgement as to whether or not it is art, and… — Madeleine L'Engle Copy Share Image
To create a work of art, great or small, is work, hard work, and work requires discipline and order. — Madeleine L'Engle Copy Share Image
All children are artists, and it is an indictment of our culture that so many of them lose their creativity, their unfettered… — Madeleine L'Engle Copy Share Image
All forms of art are consciousness expanders, and I am convinced that they will take us further, and more consciously, than drugs. — Madeleine L'Engle Copy Share Image
I like the fact that in ancient Chinese art the great painters always included a deliberate flaw in their work: human creation… — Madeleine L'Engle Copy Share Image
Art is an affirmation of life, a rebuttal of death. And here we blunder into paradox again, for during the creation of… — Madeleine L'Engle Copy Share Image
I think that all artists, regardless of degree of talent, are a painful, paradoxical combination of certainty and uncertainty, of arrogance and… — Madeleine L'Engle Copy Share Image
“In art, either as creators or participators, we are helped to remember some of the glorious things we have forgotten, and some… — Madeleine L'Engle Copy Share Image
“All real art is, in its true sense, is a religious impulse; there is no such thing as a non-religious subject. But… — Madeleine L'Engle Copy Share Image
“The artist, if he is not to forget how to listen, must retain the visionwhich includes angels and dragons and unicorns, and… — Madeleine L'Engle Copy Share Image
We live by revelations, as Christians, as artists, which means we must be careful never to get set into rigid molds. The… — Madeleine L'Engle Copy Share Image
In art we are once again able to do all the things we have forgotten; we are able to walk on water;… — Madeleine L'Engle Copy Share Image
As I listen to the silence, I learn that my feelings about art and my feelings about the Creator of the Universe… — Madeleine L'Engle Copy Share Image
The journey homewards. Coming home. That's what it's all about. The journey to the coming of the Kingdom. That's probably the chief… — Madeleine L'Engle Copy Share Image
When we look at a painting, or hear a symphony, or read a book, and feel more Named, then, for us, that… — Madeleine L'Engle Copy Share Image
When the artist is truly the servant of the work, the work is better than the artist; Shakespeare knew how to listen… — Madeleine L'Engle Copy Share Image
“So perhaps the reason I shuddered at the idea of writing something about 'Christian art' is that to paint a picture or… — Madeleine L'Engle Copy Share Image
“The artist is a servant who is willing to be a birthgiver. In a very real sense the artist (male or female)… — Madeleine L'Engle Copy Share Image
When a child who has been conceived in love is born to a man and a woman, the joy of that birth… — Madeleine L'Engle Copy Share Image
A life lived in chaos is an impossibility for the artist. No matter how unstructured may seem the painter's garret in Paris… — Madeleine L'Engle Copy Share Image
“An I Q cannot measure artistic ability. A potential Picasso may be a flop at objective vocabulary or number tests. An I… — Madeleine L'Engle Copy Share Image
We do live, all of us, on many different levels, and for most artists the world of imagination is more real than… — Madeleine L'Engle Copy Share Image
When the work takes over, then the artist is enabled to get out of the way, not to interfere. When the work… — Madeleine L'Engle Copy Share Image
“You feel things too deeply to bear them unless you can get them out of yourself through some form of art.” — Madeleine L'Engle Copy Share Image
Picasso says that an artists paints not to ask a question but because he has found something and he wants to share—he… — Madeleine L'Engle Copy Share Image
Unlearning is the choice, conscious or unconscious, of any real artist. And it is the true sign of maturity. — Madeleine L'Engle Copy Share Image
Detachment and involvement: the artist must have both. The link between them is compassion. It has taken me over fifty years to… — Madeleine L'Engle Copy Share Image
“An artist is a nourisher and a creator who knows that during the act of creation there is collaboration. We do not… — Madeleine L'Engle Copy Share Image
“I would venture a guess that an artist concentrating wholly unself-consciously, wholly thrown into his work, is incapable of producing pornography.” — Madeleine L'Engle Copy Share Image
“Creativity is a way of living life, no matter what our vocation, or how we earn our living. Creativity is not limited… — Madeleine L'Engle Copy Share Image
“You feel things too deeply to bear them unless you can get them out of yourself through some sort of art.” — Madeleine L'Engle Copy Share Image
“One of the hardest lessons I have to learn is how not to be judgmental about people who are judgmental. When I see how… — Madeleine L'Engle Copy Share
Inspiration more often comes during the work than before it, because the largest part of the job of an artist is to listen to… — Madeleine L'Engle Copy Share
You have to write the book that wants to be written. And if the book will be too difficult for grown-ups, then you write… — Madeleine L'Engle Copy Share
Severe illness isolates those in close contact with it, because it inevitably narrows the focus of concern. To a certain extent this can lead… — Madeleine L'Engle Copy Share
“Faith is what makes life bearable, with all its tragedies and ambiguities and sudden, startling joys.” — Madeleine L'Engle Copy Share
“Instead of rejoicing in this glorious “impossible” which gives meaning and dignity to our lives, we try to domesticate God, to make his mighty… — Madeleine L'Engle Copy Share
I have never lived before...Until this summer, I did not know what it was to be alive. — Madeleine L'Engle Copy Share
“To love is to be vulnerable; and it is only in vulnerability and risk—not safety and security—that we overcome darkness.” — Madeleine L'Engle Copy Share
“IT was the most horrible, the most repellent thing she had ever seen, far more nauseating then anything she had ever imagined with her… — Madeleine L'Engle Copy Share
I feel as though I'm not breathing when I'm out of his presence. He's the oxygen in my air, the sun in my universe,… — Madeleine L'Engle Copy Share
Rather than feeling lost and unimportant and meaningless, set against galaxies which go beyond the reach of the furthest telescopes, I feel that my… — Madeleine L'Engle Copy Share
My husband is my most ruthless critic... sometimes he will say, 'It's been said better before.' Of course it has. It's all been said… — Madeleine L'Engle Copy Share
