Madeleine L'Engle Quotes About Art

Quotes about: Art

• In art we are once again able to do all the things we have forgotten; we are able to walk on water; we speak to the angels who call us; we move, unfettered, among the stars.

  Madeleine L'Engle

  Art, Stars, Moving

  FaceBook post by Madeleine L'Engle from Aug 02, 2016

• I like the fact that in ancient Chinese art the great painters always included a deliberate flaw in their work: human creation is never perfect.

  Madeleine L'Engle

  Art, Creativity, Perfect

  Madeleine L'Engle (2016). “A Circle of Quiet”, p.21, Open Road Media

• Infinity is present in each part. A loving smile contains all art. The motes of starlight spark and dart. A grain of sand holds power and might.

  Madeleine L'Engle

  Inspiring, Art, Thoughtful

• As I listen to the silence, I learn that my feelings about art and my feelings about the Creator of the Universe are inseparable. To try to talk about art and about Christianity is for me one and the same thing, and it means attempting to share the meaning of my life, what gives it, for me, its tragedy and its glory.

  Madeleine L'Engle

  Art, Mean, Giving

  Madeleine L'Engle (2016). “Walking on Water: Reflections on Faith and Art”, p.16, Convergent Books

• A truly great work of art breaks beyond the bounds of the period and culture in which it is created, so final judgement on a current book has to be deferred until it can be seen outside this present moment.

  Madeleine L'Engle

  Art, Book, Judgement

  Madeleine L'Engle (2017). “The Crosswicks Journals: A Circle of Quiet, The Summer of the Great-Grandmother, The Irrational Season, and Two-Part Invention”, p.132, Open Road Media

• I believe that each work of art, whether it is a work of great genius, or something very small, comes to the artist and says, "Here I am. Enflesh me. Give birth to me."

  Madeleine L'Engle

  Art, Believe, Here I Am

  Madeleine L'Engle (2016). “Walking on Water: Reflections on Faith and Art”, p.18, Convergent Books

• But unless we are creators we are not fully alive. What do I mean by creators? Not only artists, whose acts of creation are the obvious ones of working with paint of clay or words. Creativity is a way of living life, no matter our vocation or how we earn our living. Creativity is not limited to the arts, or having some kind of important career.

  Madeleine L'Engle

  Art, Live Life, Creativity

• If it's bad art, it's bad religion, no matter how pious the subject.

  Madeleine L'Engle

  Art, Religion, Matter

  Twitter post from Jul 14, 2011

• It is possible to suffer and despair an entire lifetime and still not give up the art of laughter.

  Madeleine L'Engle

  Art, Laughter, Giving Up

  Madeleine L'Engle (2008). “A Ring of Endless Light: The Austin Family Chronicles”, p.68, Macmillan

• Basically there can be no categories such as 'religious' art and 'secular' art, because all true art is incarnational, and therefore 'religious.

  Madeleine L'Engle

  Religious, Art, Categories

  Madeleine L'Engle (2016). “Walking on Water: Reflections on Faith and Art”, p.24, Convergent Books

• When the bright angel dominates, out comes a great work of art, a Michelangelo David or a Beethoven symphony.

  Madeleine L'Engle

  Art, Angel, Symphony

  Madeleine L'Engle (2017). “A Severed Wasp: A Novel”, p.112, Open Road Media

• Art is communication.

  Madeleine L'Engle

  Art, Communication, Art Is

  Madeleine L'Engle (2016). “Walking on Water: Reflections on Faith and Art”, p.166, Convergent Books

• 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

  Art, Drug, Consciousness

  Twitter post from Nov 13, 2012

• If our lives are truly "hid with Christ in God," the astounding thing is that this hiddenness is revealed in all that we do and say and write. What we are is going to be visible in our art, no matter how secular (on the surface) the subject may be.

  Madeleine L'Engle

  Art, Writing, May

  Madeleine L'Engle (2016). “Walking on Water: Reflections on Faith and Art”, p.102, Convergent Books

• 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 see despite all the chaos.

  Madeleine L'Engle

  Art, Names, Giving

  Madeleine L'Engle (2016). “Walking on Water: Reflections on Faith and Art”, p.41, Convergent Books

• Great art always transcends its culture, while lesser art merely reflects it.

  Madeleine L'Engle

  Art, Culture, Great Art

• All real art is, in its true sense, religious; it is a religious impulse; there is no such thing as a non-religious subject. But much bad or downright sacrilegious art depicts so-called religious subjects.

  Madeleine L'Engle

  Religious, Art, Real

  Madeleine L'Engle (2016). “A Circle of Quiet”, p.32, Open Road Media

• When we can play with the unself-conscious concentration of a child, this is: art: prayer: love.

  Madeleine L'Engle

  Art, Prayer, Children

  Twitter post from Nov 19, 2010

• The rational intellect doesn't have a great deal to do with love, and it doesn't have a great deal to do with art. I am often, in my writing, great leaps ahead of where I am in my thinking, and my thinking has to work its way slowly up to what the "superconscious" has already shown me in a story or poem.

  Madeleine L'Engle

  Art, Writing, Thinking

  Madeleine L'Engle (2016). “A Circle of Quiet”, p.27, Open Road Media

• I can't think of one great human being in the arts, or in history generally, who conformed, who succeeded, as education experts tell us children must succeed, with his peer group.

  Madeleine L'Engle

  Success, Art, Children

  Madeleine L'Engle (2016). “A Circle of Quiet”, p.35, Open Road Media

• Art should communicate with as many people as possible.

  Madeleine L'Engle

  Art, People, Should

  Madeleine L'Engle (2016). “Walking on Water: Reflections on Faith and Art”, p.44, Convergent Books

• When a child who has been conceived in love is born to a man and a woman, the joy of that birth sings throughout the universe. The joy of writing or painting is much the same, and the insemination comes not from the artist himself but from his relationship with those he loves, with the whole world. All real art is, in its true sense, religious; it is a religious impulse; there is not such thing as a non-religious subject.

  Madeleine L'Engle

  Religious, Art, Children

  "A Circle of Quiet (Crosswicks Journals, Book 1)". Book by Madeleine L'Engle, 1971.

• Because I am a storyteller I live by words. Perhaps music is a purer art form. It may be that when we communicate with life on another planet, it will be through music, not through language or words.

  Madeleine L'Engle

  Art, May, Language

  Madeleine L'Engle (2016). “Walking on Water: Reflections on Faith and Art”, p.34, Convergent Books

• Great art transcends its culture and touches on that which is eternal.

  Madeleine L'Engle

  Art, Culture, Great Art

• Art is an affirmation of life, a rebuttal of death. And here we blunder into paradox again, for during the creation of any form of art, art which affirms the value and the holiness of life, the artist must die. To serve a work of art, great or small, is to die, to die to self.

  Madeleine L'Engle

  Art, Self, Holiness

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