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“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

“What is so intriguing about this interplay between technology and the human imagination is that here we are dealing with the equation. As I imagine, so I become - and this is the very essence of magic.”

Humans Imagination Technology Imagine Magic Essence Equations Intriguing Human Imagination

Author:Nevill Drury

“I have devoted myself to architecture as a sublime act of poetic imagination. Consequently, I am only a symbol for all those who have been touched by beauty. The words Beauty, Inspiration, Magic, Spellbound, Enchantment, as well as the concepts of Serenity, Silence, Intimacy and Amazement, all these have nestled in my soul. Though I am fully aware that I have not done them complete justice in my work, they have never ceased to be my guiding lights.”

“Do they still call it infatuation? That magic ax that chops away the world in one blow, leaving only the couple standing there trembling? Whatever they call it, it leaps over anything, takes the biggest chair, the largest slice, rules the ground wherever it walks, from a mansion to a swamp, and its selfishness is its beauty.... People with no imagination feed it with sex -- the clown of love. They don't know the real kinds, the better kinds, where losses are cut and everybody benefits. It takes a certain intelligence to love like that -- softly, without props.”

“One can't write a weird story of real power without perfect psychological detachment from the human scene, and a magic prism of imagination which suffuses them and style alike with that grotesquerie and disquieting distortion characteristic of morbid vision. Only a cynic can create horror - for behind every masterpiece of the sort must reside a driving daemonic force that despises the human race and its illusions, and longs to pull them to pieces and mock them.”

“Yet magic is no more than the art of employing consciously invisible means to produce visible effects. Will, love and imagination are magic powers that everyone possesses; and whoever knows how to develop them to their fullest extent is a magician. Magic has but one dogma, namely, that the seen is the measure of the unseen.”

Knows Mean Art Imagination Know How Magic Effects Produce Invisible Visible Dogma Unseen Magician Employing Magic Powers

Book:The Magician: A Novel

Source: The Magician: A Novel

“Cadiz is a city of magic, like Cracow or Dublin, to set the mind on fire at a turn of a corner. ... The eye is continually fed, the imagination stirred, by a train of spectacles as charming as if they had been contrived.”

Ifs Mind Eye Turns Imagination Cities Fire Magic Europe Train Corners Feds Charming Spectacles Dublin

Book:Silk Hats and No Breakfast: Notes on a Spanish Journey

Source: Silk Hats and No Breakfast: Notes on a Spanish Journey

“The profession of magician, is one of the most perilous and arduous specializations of the imagination. On the one hand there is the hostility of God and the police to be guarded against; on the other it is as difficult as music, as deep as poetry, as ingenious as stage-craft, as nervous as the manufacture of high explosives, and as delicate as the trade in narcotics.”

Hands Difficult Imagination Magic Stage Police Trade Profession Nervous Crafts Delicate Magician Hostility Ingenious Guarded Explosives Specialization Narcotics

Author:William Bolitho

“In The Jaguar's Children we enter the dangerous borderlands between countries and generations; myth and magic; human community and the vast, infinitely mysterious, wild environment. Here, John Vaillant proves that his heart and imagination are as expansive and fierce as his radiant intellect. Never have I encountered a writer with more energy or compassion.”

Humans Heart Children Country Energy Community Imagination Compassion Environment Generations Magic Dangerous Prove Intellect Myth Mysterious Fierce Radiant Jaguars

Author:Melanie Rae Thon

“It is not too much to say that next after the passion to learn there is no quality so indispensable to the successful prosecutionof science as imagination. Find me a people whose early medicine is not mixed up with magic and incantations, and I will find you a people devoid of all scientific ability.”

People Science Passion Next Imagination Ability Quality Successful Too Much Magic Medicine Indispensable Find Me

Book:Philosophical Writings of Peirce

Source: Philosophical Writings of Peirce

“To make your spiritual yearning public, I thought, was to announce that you were wounded. To turn deeply into religion was to admit that your own resources were so weak you had to resort to magic and miracle cures for healing. To acquire faith was to mobilize the powers of an overly active imagination.”

Spiritual Religion Turns Women Imagination Healing Magic Resources Weak Miracle Active Cures Acquire Yearning Wounded Resorts

Book:Words on Fire: One Woman's Journey Into the Sacred

Source: Words on Fire: One Woman's Journey Into the Sacred

“I want to try to apply my abilities sometimes to make families happy, so I have to make movies at a venue that are not gratuitously violent, that are not using bullets and bloodshed, but are using things like magic and fantasy and enchantment and the imagination. To me that's just all positive stuff. But I am eclectic and I still like to make movies for the midnight audience as well.”

Want Trying Wells Stills Sometimes Stuff Imagination Ability Fantasy Audience Magic Violent Bullets Midnight Enchantment Venues Bloodshed Eclectic

Author:Nicolas Cage

“In magic I believe I can control certain elements of my environment, I believe I can control certain aspects of my endocrine system, through imagination, visualization, breathing techniques, which in a sense come into the scientific aspects. So magic is a combination, its a soup, a delightful combination of art, imagination, visualization, fantasy, with a healthy dose of solid basis, because it is a science. The thing is we've lost the keys.”

“When magic through nerves and reason passes, Imagination, force, and passion will thunder. The portrait of the world is changed.”

World Reason Passion Force Imagination Magic Changed Nerves Portraits Thunder

Author:Dejan Stojanovic

“Governments and citizens blend together only in the imaginations of political theorists. Government is, and always will be, an alien power over private citizens. There is no magic in a ballot box that makes government any less coercive.”

Government Together Political Imagination Magic Citizens Boxes Aliens Ballots Theorists

Book:Freedom in Chains: The Rise of the State and the Demise of the Citizen

Source: Freedom in Chains: The Rise of the State and the Demise of the Citizen

“In the hands of a genius, engineering turns to magic, philosophy becomes poetry, and science pure imagination.”

Philosophy Hands Turns Imagination Magic Genius Pure Engineering

Author:Benjamin Disraeli

“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

“I wish I'd known at the beginning that all I really had to do is trust myself. Everything would work out as if by magic once I actually leaned back into my imagination and just let it work, and not question it and not fret about it.”

Wish Imagination Magic Work Out My Imagination

Author:Peter Straub

“Imagination is the true magic carpet.”

Art Imagination Wise Magic Insightful Carpet Imagination And Creativity

Author:Norman Vincent Peale

“If you are a dreamer come in If you are a dreamer a wisher a liar A hoper a pray-er a magic-bean-buyer If youre a pretender com sit by my fire For we have some flax golden tales to spin Come in! Come in!”

Ifs Hope Imagination Fire Magic Praying Tales Golden Liars Dreamer My Imagination Beans Buyers Pretender Flax

Author:Shel Silverstein

“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.”

“Children see magic because they look for it.”

Life Looks Children Imagination Magic My Children My Imagination Imagination And Creativity Children Education Imagination Creativity Magic Of Life Children Imagination

Book:Lamb: The Gospel According to Biff, Christ's Childhood Pal

Source: Lamb: The Gospel According to Biff, Christ's Childhood Pal

“It was octarine, the colour of magic. It was alive and glowing and vibrant and it was the undisputed pigment of the imagination, because wherever it appeared it was a sign that mere matter was a servant of the powers of the magical mind. It was enchantment itself. But Rincewind always thought it looked a sort of greenish-purple.”

Mind Matter Imagination Alive Magic Mere Servant Colour Purple Glowing Enchantment Pigment Undisputed Rincewind

Author:Terry Pratchett

“Here is the world of imagination, hopes, and dreams. In this timeless land of enchantment, the age of chivalry, magic and make-believe are reborn - and fairy tales come true. Fantasyland is dedicated to the young-in-heart, to those who that when you wish upon a star, your dreams come true.”

“One of the things he'd always loved about Clary was how easily caught up in her imagination she was, how easily she could wall herself away in illusory worlds of curses and princes and destiny and magic.”

World Imagination Destiny Magic Wall Caught Curse Fallen Caught Up Simon Lewis Illusory Fallen Angels City Of Fallen Angels

Book:Cassandra Clare: The Mortal Instruments Series (5 books): City of Bones; City of Ashes; City of Glass; City of Fallen Angels, City of Lost Souls

Source: Cassandra Clare: The Mortal Instruments Series (5 books): City of Bones; City of Ashes; City of Glass; City of Fallen Angels, City of Lost Souls

“Keats mourned that the rainbow, which as a boy had been for him a magic thing, had lost its glory because the physicists had found it resulted merely from the refraction of the sunlight by the raindrops. Yet knowledge of its causation could not spoil the rainbow for me. I am sure that it is not given to man to be omniscient. There will always be something left to know, something to excite the imagination of the poet and those attuned to the great world in which they live (p. 64)”

Knows Men World Found Lost Left Given Imagination Boys Magic Poet Glory Sunlight Rainbow Physicist Spoil Raindrops Omniscient Causation

Author:Robert Frost

“The moment you doubt whether you can fly, you cease for ever to be able to do it.”

Source: The Little White Bird (Annotated Edition)

“That's the beginning of magic. Let your imagination run and follow it.”

Running Imagination Magic

Book:Alphabet Of Thorn

Source: Alphabet Of Thorn

“My child, you have a flawed grasp of the nature of myth-making. I am a poet and storyteller, a creator of ballads and sagas. Pray do not confuse the exercise of the imagination with mere mendacity. I am a master of the mysteries of words, their meanings and music and mellifluous magic.”

Children Imagination Magic Mystery Poet Masters Praying Exercise Mere Creator Myth My Children Storyteller Flawed Ballads Saga Mendacity

Book:Fly By Night

Source: Fly By Night

“What you call magic is nothing more than an act of the imagination fired by the senses, then given shape by the power of your aura.”

Given Imagination Magic Shapes Senses Auras

Book:The First Codex

Source: The First Codex

“It's no good. I've been trying to sleep for the last half-hour, and I can't. Writing here is a sort of drug. It's the only thing I look forward to. This afternoon I read what I wrote... And it seemed vivid. I know it seems vivid because my imagination fills in all the bits another person wouldn't understand. I mean, it's vanity. But it seems a sort of magic... And I just can't live in this present. I would go mad if I did”

Ifs Knows Writing Trying Looks Mean Persons I Can Seems Lasts Bits Hours Imagination Sleep Half Magic Drug Mad Vanity Afternoon My Imagination Vivid Half Hours

Book:The Collector

Source: The Collector