Madeleine L'Engle Quotes

Art, that great undogmatized church.

The only domain where the divine is visible is that of art, whatever name we choose to call it.

I love to create, and to me, the ultimate freedom of expression is a blank canvas or a block of clay to capture whatever emotions your imagination gives it.

Music is not a work for me - it's a form of meditation, and you don't need to work hard for it.

Rules and models destroy genius and art.

My parents taught me to believe that through the creative act, we're able to transcend and give a response to desecration.

Art raises its head where creeds relax.

I live for the blank page.

Art requires neither complaisance nor politeness; nothing but faith, faith and freedom.

Stone walls confine a tinker; cold iron binds a witch; but a musician's music can never be fettered, for it lives first in her heart and mind.

Art's everything we hope life would be, a lot of times.

Music is a spiritual event and a means to realize freedom.

Every work of art is a great promise of escape and, therefore, like an open invitation.

Art has always been and is in its very essence the boldest departure from nature. It is the bridge into the spirit world.

I love acting because it's this space where dreams can be realized, fantasy comes to life, and there are no limitations on what's possible.

Music is one of the ways that God has of beating in on man.

I think everybody should just turn off their TV machines and make up their own songs about whatever comes to mind-their couch, their friends their loaves of bread. Everybody's got their own songs. There should be so many songs out there that it all turns into one big sound and we can put the whole thing into a pickup truck and let it roll off the edge of the Grand Canyon.

The voice of our age seems by no means favorable to art, at all events to that kind of art to which my inquiry is directed. The course of events has given a direction to the genius of the time that threatens to remove it continually further from the ideal of art. For art has to leave reality, it has to raise itself bodily above necessity and neediness; for art is the daughter of freedom, and it requires its prescriptions and rules to be furnished by the necessity of spirits and not by that of matter.

Art ... is a force which blows the roof off the cave where we crouch imprisoned.

In the arts, as in life, everything is possible provided it is based on love.

I get to draw what I like to draw, basically people hangin' around, and write very humanistic kinds of situations and characters. But I do also like to draw adventure stories - more in terms of drawing them than writing them - and letting my imagination go wild.

Art is ruled uniquely by the imagination.

I place my fingers upon these keys typing 2,000 dreams per minute and naked of spirit dance forth my cosmic vortex upon this crucifix called language.

All art is a form of artifice.For in art there can be no prejudices.

I don't think art is propaganda; it should be something that liberates the soul, provokes the imagination and encourages people to go further. It celebrates humanity instead of manipulating it.