Quote by Madeleine L’Engle
I like the fact that in ancient Chinese art the great painters alw

I like the fact that in ancient Chinese art the great painters always included a deliberate flaw in their work: human creation is never perfect. – Madeleine LEngle

Other quotes by Madeleine L’Engle

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 loving forgiveness of my Lord I could not call on him to come. – Madeleine LEngle

Category:
Faith
Read Quote

When the bright angel dominates, out comes a great work of art, a Michelangelo David or a Beethoven symphony. – Madeleine LEngle

Category:
Art
Read Quote
Other Quotes from
Art
category

You are welcome to your intellectual pastimes and books and art and newspapers welcome, too, to your bars and your whisky that only makes me ill. Here am I in the forest, quite content. – Knut Hamsun

Category:
Art

Piano playing is a dying art. I love the fact that I can be one guy with one instrument evoking an emotional and musical experience. – Jon Bon Jovi

Category:
Art

Artistic growth is, more than it is anything else, a refining of the sense of truthfulness. The stupid believe that to be truthful is easy; only the artist, the great artist, knows how difficult it is. – Willa Cather, The Song of the Lark, 1915

Category:
Art

The bad gains respect through imitation, the good loses it especially in art. – Friedrich Nietzsche

Category:
Art

Random Quotes

I gave up a lot of things in exchange for my success. – Billy Sheehan

Category:
Success

I was always shocked when I went to the doctors office and they did my X-ray and didnt find that I had eight more ribs than I should have or that my blood was the color green. – Nicolas Cage

Category:
Medical

Life would be infinitely happier if we could only be born at the age of eighty and gradually approach eighteen. – Mark Twain, quoted in Autobiography with Letters by William L. Phelps

Category:
Age

But those who believe that what our people desire is big government are living in a state of delusion. – Marco Rubio

Category:
Government