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What we are is going to be visible in our art, no matter how secular (on the surface) the subject may be.

What we are is going to be visible in our art, no matter how secular (on the surface) the subject may be.
– Madeleine LEngle

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  1. Basically there can be no categories such as ‘religious’ art and ‘secular’ art, because all true art is incarnational, and therefore ‘religious. – Madeleine LEngle
  2. There is nothing so secular that it cannot be sacred, and that is one of the deepest messages of the Incarnation. – Madeleine LEngle
  3. A Christian is a perfectly free lord of all, subject to none. A Christian is a perfectly dutiful servant of all, subject of all, subject to all. – Martin Luther
  4. Art does not reproduce what is visible, it makes things visible. – Paul Klee
  5. Art does not reproduce the visible; rather, it makes visible. – Paul Klee Foundation
  6. All art is at once surface and symbol. Those who go beneath the surface do so at their peril. – Oscar Wilde
  7. Art is communication. – Madeleine LEngle
  8. Creativity is a way of living life, no matter what our vocation, or how we earn our living. Creativity is not limited to the arts… – Madeleine LEngle
  9. The Magician makes the visible, invisible.The Scientist makes the invisible, visible.The Artist stands in between, indivisible. – Natasha Tsakos
  10. cease to regard the canvas as a surface on which to paint a picture, but instead as a surface on which to record an event – Harold Rosenberg
  11. A straight line is not the shortest distance between two points. – Madeleine LEngle
  12. A book, too, can be a star, a living fire to lighten the darkness, leading out into the expanding universe. – Madeleine LEngle
  13. People are more than just the way they look. – Madeleine LEngle
  14. In my dreams, I never have an age. – Madeleine LEngle
  15. She knew that the freedom was in herself, just as the prison had been. – Madeleine LEngle
  16. 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. – Madeleine LEngle
  17. Inspiration usually comes during work rather than before it. – Madeleine LEngle
  18. The unending paradox is that we do learn through pain. – Madeleine LEngle
  19. We have to be braver than we think we can be, because God is constantly calling us to be more than we are. – Madeleine LEngle
  20. Stories are like children. They grow in their own way. – Madeleine LEngle
  21. The best way to guide children without coercion is to be ourselves. – Madeleine LEngle
  22. Believing takes practice. – Madeleine LEngle
  23. Story always tells us more than the mere words, and that is why we love to write it, and to read it. – Madeleine LEngle
  24. Prayer was never meant to be magic,’ Mother said.’Then why bother with it?’ Suzy scowled.’Because it’s an act of love,’ Mother said. – Madeleine LEngle
  25. If we are to be aware of life while we are living it, we must have the courage to relinquish our hard-earned control of ourselves. – Madeleine LEngle
  26. There was no light. The darkness was deep and there was no dazzle. – Madeleine LEngle
  27. Jesus was not a theologian. He was a God who told stories. – Madeleine LEngle
  28. Women in Jesus’ day were less than second-class citizens. – Madeleine LEngle
  29. You cannot see the past that did not happen any more than you can foresee the future. – Madeleine LEngle
  30. We are suspicious of grace. We are afraid of the very lavishness of the gift. – Madeleine LEngle
  31. Just because we don’t understand doesn’t mean that the explanation doesn’t exist. – Madeleine LEngle
  32. We think because we have words, not the other way around. The more words we have, the better able we are to think conceptually. – Madeleine LEngle
  33. Meg’s eyes were too bright. -œI wish human beings couldn’t have feelings. I am having feelings. They hurt. – Madeleine LEngle
  34. Hate hurts the hater more’n the hated. – Madeleine LEngle
  35. It was the same way with silence. This was more than silence. A deaf person can feel vibrations. Here there was nothing to feel. – Madeleine LEngle
  36. A book, too, can be a star ‘explosive material, capable of stirring up fresh life endlessly. – Madeleine LEngle
  37. I am slowly coming to understand with all my heart as well as my head that love is not a feeling. It is a person. – Madeleine LEngle
  38. The great thing about getting older is that you don’t lose all the other ages you’ve been. – Madeleine LEngle
  39. Nothing loved is ever lost or perished. – Madeleine LEngle
  40. I would, quite often, like to be grownup, wise, and sophisticated. But these gifts are not mine. – Madeleine LEngle

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