Madeleine L'Engle Quotes About Discipline
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To create a work of art, great or small, is work, hard work, and work requires discipline and order.
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The concentration of a small child at play is analogous to the concentration of the artist of any discipline. In real play, which is real concentration, the child is not only outside time, he is outside himself.
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The discipline of creation, be it to paint, compose, write, is an effort towards wholeness.
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Artists of all disciplines must be willing to go into the dark, let go control, be surprised.
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A life lived in chaos is an impossibility for the artist. No matter how unstructured may seem the painter's garret in Paris or the poet's pad in Greenwich Village, the artist must have some kind of order or he will proudce a very small body of work. To create a work of art, great or small, is work, hard work, and work requires discipline and order.
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