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“If we put five people together, are there really five people? I don't think so, not in the world of magic. In the worlds of magic, there is only one being, reflecting itself in countless forms.”

People Ifs Thinking World Together Form Five Magic Awareness Buddhism Reflecting

Author:Frederick Lenz

“In all forms of magick, the imagination or image-making faculty is the most important factor”

Important Form Imagination Ability Magic Factors Faculty Magician Esoteric Imaging

Author:Kenneth Grant

“Scan your subject for things that are clearly impossible. After all, paint isn't magic! If you see that certain elements in the subject are beyond the limits of your pigments, try to form an idea beforehand of how you are going to handle those areas when you get to them.”

Ifs Trying Ideas Form Certain Impossible Magic Subjects Limits Elements Areas Paint Handle Pigment

Author:Richard Schmid

“The quality of light by which we scrutinize our lives has direct bearing upon the product which we live, and upon the changes which we hope to bring about through those lives. It is within this light that we form those ideas by which we pursue our magic and make it realized. This is poetry as illumination, for it is through poetry that we give name to those ideas which are, until the poem, nameless and formless-about to be birthed, but already felt.”

Giving Ideas Light Form Names Felt Quality Our Lives Magic Products Direct Pursue Illumination Nameless Scrutinize

Book:Sister Outsider: Essays and Speeches

Source: Sister Outsider: Essays and Speeches

“All creative art is magic , is evocation of the unseen in forms persuasive, enlightening, familiar and surprising, for the edification of mankind , pinned down by the conditions of its existence to the earnest consideration of the most insignificant tides of reality .”

Source: The Complete Novels of Joseph Conrad - All 20 Works in One Premium Edition: Including Unforgettable Titles like Heart of Darkness, Lord Jim, The Secret Agent, Nostromo, Under Western Eyes and Many More (With Author’s Letters, Memoirs and Critical Essays)

“Art arises in those strange complexities of action that are called human beings. It is a kind of human behavior. As such it is not magic, except as human beings are magical. Nor is it concerned in absolutes, eternities, "forms," beyond those that may reside in the context of the human being and be subject to his vicissitudes. Art is not an inner state of consciousness, whatever that may mean. Neither is it essentially a supreme form of communication. Art is human behavior, and its values are contained in human behavior.”

“There's magic in the water that draws all men away form the land, that leads them over hills, down creeks and streams and rivers to the sea.”

Men Form Water Magic Sea Land Draws Rivers Fishes Boat Hills Streams Lakes Fishing Creeks Over The Hill

Author:Herman Melville

“I think the novel is essentially a comic form (tragedy is for the theatre), not meaning by that full of jokes, but that it is about the absurd detail of human life, the way in which one cannot fully understand what is happening. Life is muddle and jumble and ends inconclusively, and when this is presented with great comic art the sorrows of human life can be truthfully conveyed; one is moved by the spectacle, and feels that something truthful has been told in a magic way.”

Thinking Way Feels Humans Has Beens Art Ends Form Life Is Novel Magic Sorrow Happenings Jokes Tragedy Moved Details Theatre Absurd Comic Human Life Truthful Being Truthful Muddle Comic Art

Author:Iris Murdoch

“Reading is one of the greatest forms of magic available to us on the planet.”

Form Reading Magic Planets Available

Author:Jim James

“This is the Scroll of Thoth. Herein are set down the magic words by which Isis raised Osiris from the dead. Oh! Amon-Ra--Oh! God of Gods--Death is but the doorway to new life--We live today-we shall live again--In many forms shall we return-Oh, mighty one.”

Life Today Form Death Magic Return Raised New Life Isis Doorways Live For Today Life Death Magic Words Osiris

Author:John L. Balderston

“Magic is a combination of art and science. It's an art because of the traditional parts of things, the graceful gestures, the sonorous invocations, the use of colour, sight, sound, all of these things make it very much an art form. Yet it is also a science as well because we expect something to come of what we do. Using and creating these almost dreamlike inner landscapes in which we can live, move, and have our being.”

Wells Art Use Moving Form Sound Magic Creating Art Is Sight Traditional Landscape Combination Colour Gestures Art And Science Invocation

Author:Dolores Ashcroft-Nowicki

“According to the universal laws, the magician will form his own point of view about the universe which henceforth will be his true religion.”

Form Law Universe Views Magic Universal Point Of View Mysticism Magician True Religion Universal Laws

Author:Franz Bardon

“The art form has to do with the mystery and the hidden invitation that's in the room. And that's when the magic happens, that's when the deep silence emerges to the surprise of all the attentively listening ears. In a way, you're following that silence. You go where the silence is deepest.”

Way Art Happens Form Rooms Silence Magic Mystery Listening Ears Surprise Following Silence Is Invitations Listening Ear

Author:David Whyte

“Read carefully, then don't read; work hard, then forget about it; know your tradition, then liberate yourself from it; learn language, then free yourself from it. Finally, know at least one form of magic.”

Knows Hard Form Language Forget Magic Hard Work Tradition Free Yourself

Author:Gary Snyder

“Imagination consists in expelling from reality several incomplete persons, and then using the magic and subversive powers of desire to bring them back in the form of one entirely satisfying presence.”

Persons Reality Form Desire Imagination Magic Satisfying Incomplete Subversive

Author:Rene Char

“The beliefs of Native people are no less powerful or important just because they focus on a different "form of magic."”

People Important Different Form Belief Powerful Focus Magic Native

Author:Joseph Boyden

“When I write a book I write the best that I can and so much of that for me is following the book's demands, the subject's requirements - I love books, I always have. They have always been one of the places where I have felt very happy in the world. When I was younger, I loved to read genre fiction - I loved the magic-carpet ride of story! Now I need other things - I need the beautiful particular and strange language and form which brings a writer's book to life in me and speaks to my intellect, and, dare I say it, to my soul.”

“Maybe there's a sense that technology isn't necessarily the answer to a lot of our problems. Fantasy offers readers a less radically alienated world - a world where desires and feelings that normally are trapped inside your mind are made real in the form of magic.”

World Mind Made Real Feelings Problem Form Desire Answers Technology Fantasy Magic Reader Offers Trapped

Author:Lev Grossman

“I believe there is magic everywhere. From the way art takes form from an idea and can be shared, to the way we love, to the way the world creates what we need to survive and that through all that, that we are part of a universe that is bigger than we could imagine. That's magical.”

World Way Needs Believe Art Ideas Form Universe I Believe Imagine Magic Bigger Imagine That

Author:Janine and The Mixtape

“The screen is a magic medium. It has such power that it can retain interest as it conveys emotions and moods that no other art form can hope to tackle.”

Art Form Interest Emotion Magic Screens Mood Mediums

Author:Stanley Kubrick

“Music is the strongest form of magic.”

Form Music Magic Music Is Strongest Music Soul World Music Music Lover Magical Places Powerful Music Music Artist

Author:Marilyn Manson

“If our life lacks a constant magic it is because we choose to observe our acts and lose ourselves in consideration of their imagined form and meaning, instead of being impelled by their force.”

Ifs Form Force Loses Our Lives Magic Constant Consideration

Author:Antonin Artaud

“Words! Mere words! How terrible they were! How clear, and vivid, and cruel! One could not escape from them. And yet what a subtle magic there was in them! They seemed to be able to give a plastic form to formless things, and to have a music of their own as sweet as that of viol or of lute. Mere words! Was there anything so real as words?”

Giving Writing Real Able Form Creativity Clear Magic Sweet Terrible Mere Subtle Plastic Vivid

Book:The Complete Works of Oscar Wilde: The picture of Dorian Gray : the 1890 and 1891 texts

Source: The Complete Works of Oscar Wilde: The picture of Dorian Gray : the 1890 and 1891 texts

“You are not entering this world in the usual manner, for you are setting forth to be a Dungeon Master. Certainly there are stout fighters, mighty magic-users, wily thieves, and courageous clerics who will make their mark in the magical lands of D&D adventure. You however, are above even the greatest of these, for as DM you are to become the Shaper of the Cosmos. It is you who will give form and content to the all the universe. You will breathe life into the stillness, giving meaning and purpose to all the actions which are to follow.”

World Giving Action Form Purpose Universe Magic Land This World Adventure Masters Mark Breathe Setting Settings Fighter Cosmos Courageous Usual Stillness Users Thieves Entering Dungeons Stout

Author:Gary Gygax

“This is the awe-inspiring universe of magic: There are no atoms, only waves and motions all around. Here, you discard all belief in barriers to understanding. You put aside understanding itself. This universe cannot be seen, cannot be heard, cannot be detected in any way by fixed perceptions. It is the ultimate void where no preordained screens occur upon which forms may be projected. You have only one awareness here—the screen of the magi: Imagination! Here, you learn what it is to be human. You are a creator of order, of beautiful shapes and systems, an organizer of chaos.”

“In the English language, it all comes down to this: Twenty-six letters, when combined correctly, can create magic. Twenty -six letters form the foundation of a free, informed society.”

Form Language Magic Six Letters Twenties Foundation English Language

Author:John Grogan

“Though men in the mass forget the origins of their need, they still bring wolfhounds into city apartments, where dog and man both sit brooding in wistful discomfort. The magic that gleams an instant between Argos and Odysseus is both the recognition of diversity and the need for affection across the illusions of form. It is nature's cry to homeless, far-wandering, insatiable man: "Do not forget your brethren, nor the green wood from which you sprang. To do so is to invite disaster.”

“I'm so alive. As I stand facing the beauty of the never-ending Pacific Ocean, a late afternoon breeze blows down from the hills behind. As always, it is a beautiful day. The sun is making its final descent. The magic is about to begin. The skies are ready to burn with brilliance, as it turns from a soft blue to a bright orange. Looking towards the West, I stare in awe at the hypnotic power of the waves. A giant curl begins to take form, then breaks with a thundering clap as it crashes on the shore.”

Source: A Child Called It

“This I think I have learned: where there is love, the form does not matter, and the gods are pleased. This I have observed: what occurs in nature, comes by the hand of nature, and if the gods did not approve, it would not be there ~ Moondance k'Treva (Magic's Pawn)”

Ifs Thinking Doe Matter Hands Form Magic I Have Learned Pawns

Author:Mercedes Lackey

“Facinating." He broke into a wide grin. "I've discovered something, Khufu. This is not Memphis, Egypt." Khufu gave me a sideways look, and I could swear his expression meant, Duh. "I've also discovered a new form of magic called blues music," the man continued. "And barbecue. Yes, you must try barbecue.”

Men Trying Looks Form Magic Expression Wide Broke Swear Egypt Barbecue Sideways Memphis Blues Music Duh Khufu

Author:Rick Riordan

“I’ve often wished that I had some suave and socially acceptable hobby that I could fall back on in times like this. You know, play the violin (or was it the viola) like Sherlock Holmes, or maybe twiddle away on the pipe organ like the Disney version of Captain Nemo. But I don’t. I’m sort of the arcane equivalent of a classic computer geek. I do magic, in one form or another, and that’s pretty much it. I really need to get a life, one of these days”

Source: Storm Front: Book one of The Dresden Files

“Who’s going to keep them from wiping us out species by species? Not me. We aren’t prepared for a new demographic of magic-using humans who are sadistic, power hungry, don’t like Inderlanders, and see genocide as an acceptable form of communication.”

Humans Form Magic Communication Prepared Species Hungry Genocide Acceptable Demographics Sadistic Power Hungry

Author:Kim Harrison