Heidi Gardner

“Artists are people driven by the tension between the desire to communicate and the desire to hide.”
― Donald Woods Winnicott

“I would, quite often, like to be grownup, wise, and sophisticated. But these gifts are not mine.”
― Madeleine L'Engle, A Circle of Quiet

“But I understood, now, that we don’t live only for ourselves. We’re connected by millions of shared experiences and dreams and nightmares, all tied together with compassion.
I learned that even when we’re going through our darkest winter, spring is waiting to appear.”
― Laura Anderson Kurk, Glass Girl

“All real art is, in its true sense, is a religious impulse; there is no such thing as a non-religious subject. But much bad or downright sacrilegious art depicts so-called religious subjects…Conversely, much great religious art has been written or painted or composed by people who thought they were atheists.”
― Madeleine L'Engle, A Circle of Quiet