Quotes about Magic, page 13

Art and works of art do not make an artist; sense and enthusiasm and instinct do.

Quote by Friedrich Schlegel about magic

Sarcasm is the first of the virtues of art.

Quote by Horia Garbea about magic

Art is the stored honey of the human soul, gathered on wings of misery and travail.

Quote by Theodore Herman Albert Dreiser about magic

An artist cannot speak about his art any more than a plant can discuss horticulture.

Quote by Jean Cocteau about magic

Art is the symbol of the two noblest human efforts: to construct and to refrain from destruction.

Quote by Evelyn Waugh about magic

Life is the art of drawing without having an eraser.

Quote by John Gardner about magic

I've been forty years discovering that the queen of all colors is black.

Quote by Pierre Auguste Renoir about magic

The final purpose of art is to intensify, even, if necessary, to exacerbate, the moral consciousness of people.

Quote by Norman Kingsley Mailer about magic

Dying is an art, like everything else. I do it exceptionally well. I do it so it feels like hell. I do it so it feels real. I guess you could say I've a call.

Quote by Sylvia Plath about magic

A work of art has no importance whatever to society. It is only important to the individual.

Quote by Vladimir Nabokov about magic

I Should Say Snow the green turned to black the black to white I should say snow but the word is like blood: doesn't show unless there is a wound a wound in the middle of the silence I should say in the middle of the heart but the...

Quote by Stela Vinitchi Radulescu about magic

Poetry is life before being art.

Quote by Vissarion Belinsky about magic

What strikes me is the fact that in our society, art has become something which is only related to objects, and not to individuals, or to life.

Quote by Michel Foucault about magic

Art is a waking dream. Dreams are sleeping art.

Quote by Mark Amend about magic

Writing is a kind of performing art, and I can't sit down to write unless I'm dressed. I don't mean dressed in a suit, but dressed well and comfortably and I have to be shaved and bathed.

Quote by Peter O'Toole about magic

I wish... I wish... To let ourselves be killed again monotonically By the arrows thrown by Cupid. I wish... A drop of scented rain To wash the black past, everythinhg that was once. I wish... Your heart to be a white sheet of...

Quote by Florin Muscalu about magic

The pragmatist knows that doubt is an art which has to be acquired with difficulty.

Quote by Charles Peirce about magic

I would dare to define civilization as perfected art of pretending.

Quote by Ugo Foscolo about magic

Great art is the contempt of a great man for small art.

Quote by Francis Scott Key Fitzgerald about magic

Never speak of yourself to others; make them talk about themselves instead: therein lies the whole art of pleasing. Everyone knows it and everyone forgets it.

Quote by Edmond de Goncourt about magic