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Growing up is a process that never ends. It isn't a point you attain so you can say, Hooray, I'm grown up. Some people never grow up. And nobody ever ...more

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For an artist is not a consumer, as our commercials urge us to be. An artist is a nourisher and a creator who knows that during the act of creation th...more

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If we allow our "high creativity" to remain alive, we will never be bored. We can pray, standing in line at the super market. Or we can be lost in awe...more

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The story comes, and it is pure story. That's all I set out to write. But I don't believe that we can write any kind of story without including, wheth...more

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It takes too much energy to be against something unless it's really important.

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Basically there can be no categories such as 'religious' art and 'secular' art, because all true art is incarnational, and therefore 'religious.

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In the evening of life we shall be judged on love, and not one of us is going to come off very well, and were it not for my absolute faith in the lovi...more

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A book, too, can be a star 'explosive material, capable of stirring up fresh life endlessly.

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Very few of us understand Honorable Bird, except to acknowledge that without his power and grace nothing would be written, painted, or composed at all...more

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The creative impulse can be killed, but it cannot be taught...What a teacher can do...in working with children, is to give the flame enough oxygen so ...more

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If we all knew each morning that there was going to be another morning, and on and on and on, we's tend not to notice the sunrise, or hear the birds, ...more

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If I'm confused, or upset, or angry, if I can go out and look at the stars I'll almost always get back a sense of proportion. It's not that they make ...more

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Life, with its rules, its obligations, and its freedoms, is like a sonnet: You're given the form, but you have to write the sonnet yourself. - Mrs. Wh...more

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But unless we are creators we are not fully alive. What do I mean by creators? Not only artists, whose acts of creation are the obvious ones of workin...more

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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.