Let There Be Art Quotes

“Poetry reminds us that we are not alone, that we have never been alone, and that we will never be alone. It offers a sort of communion, a kind space to share with someone. It is a humble form of hospitality, of swinging wide open the door of your soul, as if to say the things that confess that state of your soul. It is an invitation. It is a welcome. It is home.”
― Rachel Marie Kang, Let There Be Art

“In the beautiful words of Lore Wilbert Ferguson: Tell me, I want to say to my fellow writers, tell me of your inner demons, tell me of your flesh. I want to hear the war that waged within you as you navigated complex stories and spaces. I want to know how hard you fought and how much you wept and how little you prayed. Tell it honest, tell it slant, tell it however you want to, but tell the truth because the truth is ten thousand little protests that got you where you are and every one of them matters to God and to me and even to you because there you are and there you were all along.5”
― Rachel Marie Kang, Let There Be Art: The Pleasure and Purpose of Unleashing the Creativity within You

“It isn’t futile and it isn’t fruitless to be fascinated with fiction in the way that you are. It isn’t weird and it isn’t a waste of time to fall in love with the characters in books you read or the shows you watch. These characters are teaching you something about loss, about love. They are teaching you something about living in light and pushing back the dark.”
― Rachel Marie Kang, Let There Be Art

“We can learn again to live creatively and artfully by looking to the things that give us breath and take our breath away.”
― Rachel Marie Kang, Let There Be Art

“Art, not as a way of claiming that we are right about anything, but art as a way of climbing back toward the light. Yes, art as a way of pushing back the darkness within ourselves, within our world.”
― Rachel Marie Kang, Let There Be Art

“You are not just a body of bones and blood and breath, you are a heart bending to hear, you are a soul straining to see something beautiful in the midst of all that breaks.”
― Rachel Marie Kang, Let There Be Art

“Brokenness wasn’t our beginning. We began as breath bound to the heartbeat of God. We were not damned from the beginning. Darkness was. We were not bad and broken from the beginning. We were believed in from the beginning.”
― Rachel Marie Kang, Let There Be Art