"For an artist is not a consumer, as our commercials urge us to be. An artist is a nourisher and a creator who knows that during the act of creation th...
Art is communication.
More Madeleine L'Engle quotes
"Basically there can be no categories such as 'religious' art and 'secular' art, because all true art is incarnational, and therefore 'religious.
"Very few of us understand Honorable Bird, except to acknowledge that without his power and grace nothing would be written, painted, or composed at all...
"The creative impulse can be killed, but it cannot be taught...What a teacher can do...in working with children, is to give the flame enough oxygen so ...
"What we are is going to be visible in our art, no matter how secular (on the surface) the subject may be.
"When we are writing or painting or composing, we are, during the time of creativity, freed from normal restrictions and opened to a wider world, where...
"The figure in the icon is not meant to represent literally what Peter or John or any of the apostles looked like, or what Mary looked like, nor the ch...
"The writer does want to be published; the painter urgently hopes that someone will see the finished canvas (van Gogh was denied the satisfaction of ha...
"Stories, no matter how simple, can be vehicles of truth; can be, in fact, icons. It's no coincidence that Jesus taught almost entirely by telling stor...
"If the artist reflects only his own culture, then his works will die with that culture. But if his works reflect the eternal and universal, they will ...
"Creativity is a way of living life, no matter what our vocation, or how we earn our living. Creativity is not limited to the arts...
"In art, either as creators or participators, we are helped to remember some of the glorious things we have forgotten, and some of the terrible things ...
"Stories are able to help us to become more whole, to become Named. And Naming is one of the impulses behind all art; to give a name to the cosmos, we ...
"Reading about the response of people in stories, plays, poems, helps us to respond more courageously and openly at our own moments of turning.
"The artist is a servant who is willing to be a birthgiver. In a very real sense the artist (male or female) should be like Mary who, when the angel to...