Madeleine L'Engle
Madeleine L'Engle
Madeleine L'Englewas an American writer best known for young-adult fiction, particularly the Newbery Medal-winning A Wrinkle in Time and its sequels: A Wind in the Door, National Book Award-winning A Swiftly Tilting Planet, Many Waters, and An Acceptable Time. Her works reflect both her Christian faith and her strong interest in modern science...
real artist maturity
Unlearning is the choice, conscious or unconscious, of any real artist. And it is the true sign of maturity.
real artist imagination
We do live, all of us, on many different levels, and for most artists the world of imagination is more real than the world of the kitchen sink.
artist differences vision
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.
artist judging
the artist is not separate from the work and therefore cannot judge it.
children real artist
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.
letting-go dark artist
Artists of all disciplines must be willing to go into the dark, let go control, be surprised.
character artist symphony
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.
artist long suffering
An artist is someone who cannot rest, who can never rest as long as there is one suffering creature in the world.
artist way interfere
When the work takes over, then the artist is enabled to get out of the way, not to interfere. When the work takes over, then the artist listens.
artist want helping
Picasso says that an artists paints not to ask a question but because he has found something and he wants to share—he cannot help it—what he has found.
children creativity artist
All children are artists, and it is an indictment of our culture that so many of them lose their creativity, their unfettered imaginations, as they grow older.
writing artist way
When the artist is truly the servant of the work, the work is better than the artist; Shakespeare knew how to listen to his work, and so he often wrote better than he could write; Bach composed more deeply, more truly than he knew, Rembrandt's brush put more of the human spirit on canvas than Rembrandt could comprehend. When the work takes over, then the artist is enabled to get out of the way, not to interfere. When the work takes over, then the artist listens.
artist needs mets
artists ... all have a need that cannot be met by another human being.
children husband writing
During the long drag of years before our youngest child went to school, my love for my family and my need to write were in acute conflict. The problem was really that I put two things first. My husband and children came first. So did my writing. Bump.