Quotes by Magic To get the medium's magic to work for one's aims rather than against them is to attain literacy. Alan Kay aim literacy magic Art is, like magic, the science of manipulating symbols, words or images to achieve changes in consciousness Alan Moore magic consciousness art For me, there is very little difference between magic and art. To me, the ultimate act of magic is to create something from nothing: It's like when the stage magician pulls the rabbit from the hat. Alan Moore magic differences art Do I believe, for example, that by using magic I could fly? No. How would you get around gravity? Impossible. Do I believe that I might be able to project my consciousness into a very, very vivid simulation of flying? Yeah. Yes, I've done that. Yes, that works. Alan Moore magic flying believe I think that storytelling and creation are very close to what the center of what magic is about. I think not just for me, but for most of the cultures that have had a concept of magic, then the manipulation of language, and words, and thus of stories and fictions, has been very close to the center of it all. Alan Moore magic culture thinking Magic and art tend to share a lot of the same language. They both talk about evocation, invocation, and conjuring. Alan Moore magic language art Magic is a state of mind. It is often portrayed as very black and gothic, and that is because certain practitioners played that up for a sense of power and prestige. That is a disservice. Magic is very colorful. Of this, I am sure. Alan Moore magic black mind I don’t distinguish between magic and art. When I got into magic, I realised I had been doing it all along, ever since I wrote my first pathetic story or poem when I was twelve or whatever. This has all been my magic, my way of dealing with it. Alan Moore twelve magic art Any effects created before 1975 were done with either tape or echo chambers or some kind of acoustic treatment. No magic black boxes! Alan Parsons echoes magic black The best magic always results from ecstasies of logic. Alban Berg logic magic results If you want to be a writer, just write. There's no magic to it. Albert Brooks magic want writing God is a scientist, not a magician. Albert Einstein magician scientist magic Scarcely anyone who comprehends this theory can escape its magic. Albert Einstein magic theory science The magic of compounding interest is truly the eighth wonder of the world! Albert Einstein magic wonder world Beige is atmosphere. It's bisque, it's ivory, it's cream, it's stone, it's toast, it's cappuccino. It;s well, it's magic. Albert Hadley ivory atmosphere magic LSD is really just a small chemical modification of a very old sacred drug of Mexico. LSD belongs, therefore, by its chemical structure and by its activity, in the group of the magic plants of Mesoamerica. It does not occur in nature as such, but it represents just a small chemical variation of natural material. Albert Hofmann mexico magic drug I try to transform a dream's magic into reality. Alberta Ferretti magic dream reality Without Leskov there would be no Bulgakov, no Chekhov, but also no Garca Mrquez and Julio Cortzar. . . . Leskov is the essential storyteller: he does not portray life, he creates it in all its wonder and terror and magic. Alberto Manguel magic essentials doe Every reader has found charms by which to secure possession of a page that, by magic, becomes as if never read before, fresh and immaculate. Alberto Manguel charm magic pages The creation by word-power of something out of nothing--what is that but magic? And, may I add, what is that but literature? Aldous Huxley magic literature add «1234567891011»
