“Every poet and musician and artist, but for grace">Grace, is drawn away from love of the thing he tells to love of the telling till, down in Deep Hell, they cannot be interested in God at all but only in what they say about Him.” ArtistGracePoetMusicianDivorceGreat DivorceAway From Love Author:C. S. Lewis
“Berthe Morisot was a painter full of eighteenth-century delicacy and grace; in a word, the last elegant and 'feminine' artists since Fragonard.” LastsArtistGraceCenturyPainterFeminineElegantDelicacy Author:Pierre-Auguste Renoir
“Cultures that may seem as durable as stone can break like glass, leaving all the things that held them together unattended. I believe that the craftsman, the artist, the cook, and the silversmith are peacemakers. They instill grace; they lull the world to calm.” WorldBelieveMaySeemsTogetherArtistCultureI BelieveBreakGraceStonesLeavingCalmGlassesCooksInstillPeacemakerCraftsmanLulls Book:House of Stone: A Memoir of Home, Family, and a Lost Middle East Source: House of Stone: A Memoir of Home, Family, and a Lost Middle East
“Just as the creative artist is not allowed to choose, neither is he permitted to turn his back on anything: a single refusal, and he is cast out of the state of grace and becomes sinful all the way through.” WayStatesArtistTurnsCreativeGraceCastsRefusalCreative ArtCreative Artists Book:Letters on Cézanne Source: Letters on Cézanne