Quotes About Mystery

The purpose of art is mystery.

I am interested in solving an unknown factor of art and an unknown factor of life.

Rae Chorze Fwaz was a mystery school. A mystery school is an occult order comprised of people who study meditation, enlightenment and psychic and occult arts.

Art is a sense of magic.

Besides prostitution, magic is one of the oldest art forms that exist.

The art of a magician is to create wonder. If we live with a sense of wonder, our lives become filled with joy.

All creative art is magic, is evocation of the unseen in forms persuasive, enlightening, familiar and surprising.

You are some kind of a mystery suspended between two eternities. And in that moment, when a mind looks out at a world and asks the question, 'What is it?' In that moment art can be created.

Shadow conceals—light reveals. To know what to reveal and what to conceal, and in what degrees to do this, is all there is to art.

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.

It is not necessary for the public to know whether I am joking or whether I am serious, just as it is not necessary for me to know it myself.

The most profound things are inexpressible.

The muses are ghosts, and sometimes they come uninvited.

Jewels and binoculars hang from the head of the mule.

Though thou art far away, thy rays are on Earth; Though thou art in their faces, no one knows thy going.

People love mystery, and that is why they love my paintings.

Sometimes my art is just an illusion - or is it?

Magic and art tend to share a lot of the same language. They both talk about evocation, invocation, and conjuring.

The mystery was gone but the amazement was just starting.

All nature is but art unknown to thee.

It would be a lowly art that allowed itself to be understood all at once.

I've studied astrology for many, many years, and I feel like it's an incredibly challenging art.

I think the mystery of art lies in this, that artists' relationship is essentially with their work — not with power, not with profit, not with themselves, not even with their audience.

Mystery is the art of eliciting unseen things hidden in the shadow of natural ones... and serving to demonstrate as real the things that are not.