“Engage with things that someone put a lot of work into.”
by Melissa Kirsch, New York Times
Engage
Making art
“Making art is dangerous and revealing. Making art precipitates self-doubt, stirring deep waters that lay between what you know you should be, and what you fear you might be.”
From Art & fear by D. Bayles and T. Orland
Again
Art is all about starting again.
From Art and Fear by David Bayles & Ted Orland
Sharing
“Speech is sharing — a cooperative art”
From The dispossessed by Ursula K. Le Guin
Here I am. Enflesh me.
To paint a picture, to write a story or compose a song is an incarnational activity. The artist is a servant who is willing to be a birth giver.
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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.” And the artist says “My soul doth magnifies the Lord” and willingly becomes the bearer of the work, or refuses.
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We lose the ability to see angels as we grow older and that is a tragic loss.”
Walking on water by Madeleine L’Engle
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