"When you painted on earth- at least in your earlier days- it was because you caught glimpses of Heaven in the earthly landscape. The success of your painting was that it enabled others to see the glimpses too...
When you've grown into a Person there'll be some things which you'll see better than anyone else. One of the things you'll want to do is tell us about them. But not yet. At present your business is to see. Come and see. He is endless...
If you are interested in the country only for the sake of painting it, you'll never learn to see the country... Light itself was your first love: you loved paint only as a means of telling about light...
Every poet and musician and artist, but for 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."
5 comments:
I'm asking for eyes to see. I'm asking that you (my artist friends) and I may love the Light more than our clever tellings of the Light.
how is it that you always have the right quotes that ignite something in me. I think the ironic thing about this quote is from a book that I reference a lot in my "talking" with people, but I can't remember this quote at all. Such truth, Clive Staples.
we had that same passage up in our music room then in the kitchen for a long time.
love it.
is this part of your inspiration for your art you are working on? i think you should make a book of your favorite quotes... i'd definitely buy it! :-)
Faith - I have always loved this quote. Since the beginning of time. I thought of you today - we should catch up again soon!
Many, many blessings,
Carrie ;)
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