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Quotes About Magic

No one day is like another,each tomorrow has its special miracle, its magic moment in which old universes are destroyed and new stars are created.
~ Paulo Coelho
On the myth of Eros) Each time I recall this myth, I wonder: Are we never to be able to see the true face of love? And I understand what the Greeks meant by this: Love is an act of faith and its face should always be covered in mystery. Every moment should be lived with feeling and emotion because if we try to decipher it and understand it, the magic disappears.
~ Paulo Coelho
In magic - and in life - there is only the present moment, the now. You can't measure time the way you measure the distance between 2 points. 'Time' doesn't pass.
~ Paulo Coelho
For a moment, he thought: I could give up magic for her, but immediately realized how foolish that thought was. Love didn't require that kind of renunciation. True love allowed each person to follow their own path, knowing that they would never lose touch with their Soul Mate.
~ Paulo Coelho
Words are born in thought, leaving lips, they acquire soul in the ears, yet sometimes this auditory magic does not make it as far as the mouth because it is swallowed dry.
~ Unknown
What looks like crazy on an ordinary day looks a lot like love if you catch it in the moonlight.
~ Pearl Cleage
I learned today that life is very precious. Even when we're determined to block the magic, it will get through and wake us up.
~ Pema Chodron
Glass is the most magical of all materials. It transmits light in a special way.
~ Unknown
Art is a magic which makes the hours melt away and even days dissolve into seconds
~ Leonora Carrington
Surrealism is the magical surprise of finding a lion in a wardrobe, where you were 'sure' of finding shirts.
~ Frida Kahlo
I had wanted a tape recorder since I was tiny. I thought it was a magic thing. I never got one until just before I went to art school.
~ Brian Eno
Art is a sense of magic.
~ Stan Brakhage
Sometimes I think creativity is magic; it's not a matter of finding an idea, but allowing the idea to find you.
~ Maya Lin
The art of a magician is to create wonder. If we live with a sense of wonder, our lives become filled with joy.
~ Doug Henning
All creative art is magic, is evocation of the unseen in forms persuasive, enlightening, familiar and surprising.
~ Joseph Conrad
In the end nobody knows how it's done — how art is made. It can't be explained. Optical devices are just tools. Understanding a tool doesn't explain the magic of creation. Nothing can.
~ David Hockney
Art is magic delivered from the lie of being truth.
~ Theodor Adorno
Without magic, there is no art. Without art, there is no idealism. Without idealism, there is no integrity. Without integrity, there is nothing but production.
~ Raymond Chandler
Sometimes my art is just an illusion - or is it?
~ Criss Angel
Magic becomes art when it has nothing to hide.
~ Ben Okri
Magic and art tend to share a lot of the same language. They both talk about evocation, invocation, and conjuring.
~ Alan Moore
Finding a master of the dark art of ninjutsu in modern westernized Japan seems as unlikely as finding an active practitioner of the magic of Merlin in contemporary industrialized England.
~ Unknown
The process I go through in the art and the architecture, I actually want it to be almost childlike. Sometimes I think it's magical.
~ Maya Lin
I am here on Earth to express myself, and the many media of art are my magic carpets that allow me the freedom to do so.
~ Brandon Boyd