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

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When we are writing or painting or composing, we are, during the time of creativity, freed from normal restrictions and opened to a wider world, where...more

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The figure in the icon is not meant to represent literally what Peter or John or any of the apostles looked like, or what Mary looked like, nor the ch...more

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The writer does want to be published; the painter urgently hopes that someone will see the finished canvas (van Gogh was denied the satisfaction of ha...more

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Stories, no matter how simple, can be vehicles of truth; can be, in fact, icons. It's no coincidence that Jesus taught almost entirely by telling stor...more

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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...

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In art, either as creators or participators, we are helped to remember some of the glorious things we have forgotten, and some of the terrible things ...more

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Stories are able to help us to become more whole, to become Named. And Naming is one of the impulses behind all art; to give a name to the cosmos, we ...more

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Reading about the response of people in stories, plays, poems, helps us to respond more courageously and openly at our own moments of turning.

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The artist is a servant who is willing to be a birthgiver. In a very real sense the artist (male or female) should be like Mary who, when the angel to...more

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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.