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the artist is not separate from the work and therefore cannot judge it.

the artist is not separate from the work and therefore cannot judge it.

Madeleine L'Engle
Artist, Judging
Madeleine L'Engle (2016). “Two-Part Invention: The Story of a Marriage”, p.14, Open Road Media

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.

Madeleine L'Engle
Real, Artist, Imagination
Madeleine L'Engle (2016). “A Circle of Quiet”, p.55, Open Road Media

If you want to write, you need to keep an honest, unpublishable journal that nobody reads, nobody but you.

Madeleine L'Engle
Writing, Needs, Want
Twitter post from May 01, 2016

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

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.

Inspiration does not always precede the act of writing; it often follows it.

Madeleine L'Engle
Inspiration, Writing, Doe
Twitter post from Nov 15, 2011

I am convinced that each work of art, be it a great work of genius or something very small, has its own life, and it will come to the artist, the composer or the writer or the painter, and say, "Here I am: compose me; or write me; or paint me"; and the job of the artist is to serve the work.

Madeleine L'Engle
Art, Jobs, Writing
Madeleine L'Engle (2016). “The Irrational Season”, p.106, Open Road Media

I know writers who write only when inspiration comes. How would Isaac Stern play if he played the violin only when he felt like it? He would be lousy.

Madeleine L'Engle
Inspiration, Writing, Play

To write for children at all is an act of faith.

Madeleine L'Engle
Children, Writing, Literature

The primary needs can be filled without language. We can eat, sleep, make love, build a house, bear children, without language. But we cannot ask questions. We cannot ask, 'Who am I? Who are you? Why?

Madeleine L'Engle
Children, Sleep, House
Madeleine L'Engle (2016). “A Circle of Quiet”, p.117, Open Road Media

Women must be very gentle with men as they, as well as women, seek to regain the lost wholeness for which they were destined.

Madeleine L'Engle
Men, Lost, Gentle
Madeleine L'Engle (1983). “And it was Good, Reflections on Beginnings”, Harold Shaw Pub

Language changes. If it does not change, like Latin it dies. But we need to be aware that as our language changes, so does our theology change, particularly if we are trying to manipulate language for a specific purpose. That is what is happening with our attempts at inclusive language, which thus far have been inconclusive and unsuccessful.

Madeleine L'Engle
Latin, Trying, Doe

You learn to write by doing it.

Madeleine L'Engle
Writing

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

One of the many sad results of the Industrial Revolution was that we came to depend more than ever on the intellect, and to ignore the intuition with its symbolic thinking.

Madeleine L'Engle
Thinking, Intuition, Revolution
Madeleine L'Engle (2016). “Walking on Water: Reflections on Faith and Art”, p.76, Convergent Books

I rebel against death, yet I know that it is how I respond to death's inevitability that is going to make me less or more fully alive.

Madeleine L'Engle
Rebel, Alive, Knows
Madeleine L'Engle (2016). “The Summer of the Great-Grandmother”, p.21, Open Road Media

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

Art is not a mirror but an icon. It takes the chaos in which we live and shows us structure and pattern, not the structure of conformity which imprisons but the structure which liberates, sets us free to become growing, mature human beings.

Madeleine L'Engle
Art, Mirrors, Icons
Madeleine L'Engle (2016). “A Circle of Quiet”, p.74, Open Road Media

You cannot see the past that did not happen any more than you can foresee the future.

Madeleine L'Engle
Regret, Future, Past
Twitter post from Apr 29, 2011

In your language you have a form of poetry called the sonnet…There are fourteen lines, I believe, all in iambic pentameter. That’s a very strict rhythm or meter…And each line has to end with a rigid pattern. And if the poet does not do it exactly this way, it is not a sonnet…But within this strict form the poet has complete freedom to say whatever he wants…You’re given the form, but you have to write the sonnet yourself. What you say is completely up to you.

Madeleine L'Engle
Believe, Writing, Lines

For that moment, at least, all our doors and windows were wide open; we were not carefully shutting out God's purifying light, in order to feel safe and secure; we were bathed in the same light that burned and yet did not consume the bush. We walked barefoot on holy ground.

Madeleine L'Engle
Holy Ground, Light, Doors
Madeleine L'Engle (2016). “Walking on Water: Reflections on Faith and Art”, p.40, Convergent Books

As paredes tem ouvidos. (Portuguese: The walls have ears.)

Madeleine L'Engle
Wall, Walls Have Ears, Ears

Das Werk lobt den Meister. (German: The work proves the craftsman.)

Madeleine L'Engle
Craftsman, Dens, Prove
Madeleine L'Engle (2012). “A Wrinkle in Time: 50th Anniversary Commemorative Edition”, p.63, Macmillan

Vitam impendere vero. To stake one's life for the truth.

Madeleine L'Engle
Stakes
"A Wrinkle in Time: 50th Anniversary Commemorative Edition".

Only a fool is not afraid.

Madeleine L'Engle
Fool, Not Afraid
Madeleine L'Engle (2012). “A Wrinkle in Time: 50th Anniversary Commemorative Edition”, p.98, Macmillan

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