Madeleine L'Engle Quotes About Talent

Quotes about: Talent

• We can't take any credit for our talents. It's how we use them that counts.

  Madeleine L'Engle

  Life, Attitude, Integrity

  Twitter post from Aug 29, 2016

• I think that all artists, regardless of degree of talent, are a painful, paradoxical combination of certainty and uncertainty, of arrogance and humility, constantly in need of reassurance, and yet with a stubborn streak of faith in their own validity no matter what.

  Madeleine L'Engle

  Writing, Humility, Artist

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

• We do not know and cannot tell when the spirit is with us. Great talent or small, it makes no difference. We are caught within our own skins, our own sensibilities; we never know if our technique has been adequate to the vision.

  Madeleine L'Engle

  Artist, Differences, Vision

  Madeleine L'Engle (2016). “The Irrational Season”, p.195, Open Road Media

• The degree of talent, the size of the gift, is immaterial. All artists must listen, but not all hear great symphonies, see wide canvasses, conceive complex, character-filled novels. No
  matter, the creative act is the same, and it is an act of faith.

  Madeleine L'Engle

  Character, Artist, Symphony

  FaceBook post by Madeleine L'Engle from Jan 01, 2017

• You cannot take credit for your talents. It is what you do with them that counts.

  Madeleine L'Engle

  Credit, Talent

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