Quotes from Madeleine L'Engle
When the bright angel dominates, out comes a great work of art, a Michelangelo David or a Beethoven symphony.
- Madeleine L'Engle
Don't keep putting your anger off. Until you go through it, you can't get out of it.
- Madeleine L'Engle
In art we are once again able to do all the things we have forgotten; we are able to walk on water; we speak to the angels who call us; we move, unfettered, among the stars.
- Madeleine L'Engle
It is possible to suffer and despair an entire lifetime and still not give up the art of laughter.
- Madeleine L'Engle
Great art transcends its culture and touches on that which is eternal.
- Madeleine L'Engle
Art should communicate with as many people as possible.
- Madeleine L'Engle
I can't think of one great human being in the arts, or in history generally, who conformed, who succeeded, as education experts tell us children must succeed, with his peer group.
- Madeleine L'Engle
If it's bad art, it's bad religion, no matter how pious the subject.
- Madeleine L'Engle
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
I believe that each work of art, whether it is a work of great genius, or something very small, comes to the artist and says, "Here I am. Enflesh me. Give birth to me."
- Madeleine L'Engle
the artist is not separate from the work and therefore cannot judge it.
- Madeleine L'Engle
We look not at the things which are what you would call seen, but at the things which are not seen. For the things which are seen are temporal. But the things that are not seen are eternal.
- Madeleine L'Engle