Madeleine L'Engle Quotes About Discipline

Quotes about: Discipline

• The discipline of creation, be it to paint, compose, write, is an effort towards wholeness.

  Madeleine L'Engle

  Writing, Discipline, Effort

  Twitter post from Sep 14, 2016

• A life lived in chaos is an impossibility for the artist. No matter how unstructured may seem the painter's garret in Paris or the poet's pad in Greenwich Village, the artist must have some kind of order or he will proudce a very small body of work. To create a work of art, great or small, is work, hard work, and work requires discipline and order.

  Madeleine L'Engle

  Art, Hard Work, Paris

  Madeleine L'Engle (2016). “Walking on Water: Reflections on Faith and Art”, p.138, Convergent Books

• The concentration of a small child at play is analogous to the concentration of the artist of any discipline. In real play, which is real concentration, the child is not only outside time, he is outside himself.

  Madeleine L'Engle

  Children, Real, Artist

  Madeleine L'Engle (2016). “A Circle of Quiet”, p.8, Open Road Media

• To create a work of art, great or small, is work, hard work, and work requires discipline and order.

  Madeleine L'Engle

  Art, Hard Work, Order

  Madeleine L'Engle (2016). “Walking on Water: Reflections on Faith and Art”, p.138, Convergent Books

• Artists of all disciplines must be willing to go into the dark, let go control, be surprised.

  Madeleine L'Engle

  Letting Go, Dark, Artist

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