When we are writing, or painting, or composing, we are, during the time of creativity, freed from normal restrictions, and are opened to a wider world, where colors are brighter, sounds clearer, and people more wondrously complex than we normally realize.
Interpretation
Creative activities expand our perception of reality and allow us to experience the world in a richer way.
Madeleine L'Engle emphasizes that during the creative process, whether it's writing, painting, or composing music, individuals transcend ordinary limitations. This state of creativity opens up a vast and vivid perception of the world, revealing deeper colors, sounds, and complexities in life that we often overlook in our daily routines.
In practice
In a speech about the importance of art education, one might use this quote to highlight how creativity nurtures a richer understanding of the world.
Truth is what is true, and it's not necessarily factual. Truth and fact are not the same thing. Truth does not contradict or deny facts, but it goes through and beyond facts. This is something that it is very difficult for some people to understand. Truth can be dangerous.
George MacDonald gives me renewed strength during times of trouble--times when I have seen people tempted to deny God--when he says, "The Son of God suffered unto death, not that men might not suffer, but that their sufferings might be like his.
If you don't recount your family history, it will be lost. Honor your own stories and tell them too. The tales may not seem very important, but they are what binds families and makes each of us who we are.
I never want to lose the story-loving child within me, or the adolescent, or the young woman, or the middle-aged one, because all together they help me to be fully alive on this journey, and show me that I must be willing to go where it takes me, even through the valley of the shadow.
The minute we begin to think we have all the answers, we forget the questions.
When we believe in the impossible, it becomes possible, and we can do all kinds of extraordinary things.
The song that nerves a nation's heart is in itself a deed.
I used to agonise over what to do next, but now I'm making a movie a year. It's insane, but it's only a movie after all. You just hang in there, and occasionally you might make something which you can call art... briefly.
There can be no 'graduated exercises in drawing' leading up to an artistic creation. That goal can be attained only through the development of mechanical technique and through the freedom of the spirit.
We do not go to the theatre like our ancestors, to escape from the pressure of reality, so much as to confirm our experience of it.
I certainly had no feeling for harmony, and Schoenberg thought that that would make it impossible for me to write music. He said, 'You'll come to a wall you won't be able to get through.' So I said, 'I'll beat my head against that wall.'
My entire soul is a cry, and all my work is a commentary on that cry.
Subscribe for the occasional hand-picked quote. No noise.