Quotessence
Home / Quotes / Quote by Edith Schaeffer

Quote by Edith Schaeffer

“All art involves conscious discipline. If one is going to paint, do sculpture, design a building or write a book, it will involve discipline in time and energy — or there would never be any production at all to be seen, felt or enjoyed by ourselves or others. To develop ‘Hidden Art’ will also, of course, take time and energy – and the balance of the use of time is a constant individual problem for all of us: what to do, and what to leave undone. One is always having to neglect one thing in order to give precedence to something else. The question is one of priorities”

Quote by Edith Schaeffer

Work

Hidden art

This book delves into the realm of obscure and hidden artistic treasures, examining their cultural impact and historical value. more

Author

Edith Schaeffer
Edith Schaeffer

Edith Schaeffer, born on November 3, 1914, and died on March 30, 2013, was a renowned Christian author and thinker. Her works covered a wide range of fields, including family, education, and faith, and had a profound impact on contemporary Christian culture. more

You May Also Like

“It seems to me that whether it is recognized or not, there is a terrific frustration which increases in intensity and harmfulness as time goes on, when people are always daydreaming of the kind of place in which they would like to live, yet never making the place where they do live into anything artistically satisfying to them. Always to dream of a cottage by a brook while never doing anything to the stuffy house in the city is to waste creativity in this very basic area, and to hinder future creativity by not allowing it to grow and develop through use.”

“When you say to yourself, 'I am going to have a pleasant visit or a pleasant journey,' you are literally sending elements and forces ahead of your body that will arrange things to make your visit or journey pleasant. When before the visit or the journey or the shopping trip you are in a bad humour, or fearful or apprehensive of something unpleasant, you are sending unseen agencies ahead of you which will make some kind of unpleasantness. Our thoughts, or in other words, our state of mind, is ever at work 'fixing up' things good or bad in advance.”

“Possibilities and miracles mean the same thing”

“To say a thing 'must be', is the very power that makes it.”