Quotes about Magic, page 3

By the general process of epic poetry, I mean the way this form of art has constantly responded to the profound needs of the society in which it was made.

Quote by Lascelles Abercrombie about magic

Man creating his own destiny, man, however wearied with the long task of resistance, achieving some conscious community of aspiration, and dreaming of the perfection of himself: the poet whose lovely and noble art makes us a great symbol of that,...

Quote by Lascelles Abercrombie about magic

No poet will ever take the written word as a substitute for the spoken word; he knows that it is on the spoken word, and the spoken word only, that his art is founded.

Quote by Lascelles Abercrombie about magic

Fashion is only the attempt to realize art in living forms and social intercourse.

Quote by Francis Bacon about magic

The momentous thing in human life is the art of winning the soul to good or evil.

Quote by Francis Bacon about magic

If we learn the art of yielding what must be yielded to the changing present, we can save the best of the past.

Quote by Dean Acheson about magic

First of all, writing at best - certainly fiction writing - more and more I think is magic.

Quote by Kathy Acker about magic

Anything that had to do with art I been doing all my life. It was a gift. It's nothing I work real hard at doing.

Quote by Erykah Badu about magic

I love putting the music together. It's like art.

Quote by Erykah Badu about magic

Photography is more than a medium for factual communication of ideas. It is a creative art.

Quote by Ansel Adams about magic

I'll dabble here and there in different forms of the art, but the label has me locked down like a slave so, of course, I'll be doing albums during this time.

Quote by Erykah Badu about magic

I'm free. I just do what I want, say what I want, say how I feel, and I don't try to hurt nobody. I just try to make sure that I don't compromise my art in any kind of way, and I think people respect that.

Quote by Erykah Badu about magic

It's almost like a lot of black people in America, a lot of young black men, are born with this cloud over their heads. It's their penitentiary cloud, this philosophy we all have, that it's harder for us.

Quote by Erykah Badu about magic

There are worlds of experience beyond the world of the aggressive man, beyond history, and beyond science. The moods and qualities of nature and the revelations of great art are equally difficult to define; we can grasp them only in the depths of...

Quote by Ansel Adams about magic

It's not wrong for us to be together, it's wrong for us to put down each other and depreciate each other's values. Black people have been depreciated a lot here in America; that's a true thing.

Quote by Erykah Badu about magic

We must not let daylight in upon the magic.

Quote by Walter Bagehot about magic

Creativity is allowing yourself to make mistakes. Art is knowing which ones to keep.

Quote by Scott Adams about magic

On the other hand, the waging of peace as a science, as an art, is in its infancy. But we can trace its growth, its steady progress, and the time will come when there will be particular individuals designated to assume responsibility for and...

Quote by Fredrik Bajer about magic

We have long possessed the art of war and the science of war, which have been evolved in the minutest detail.

Quote by Fredrik Bajer about magic

All humanity is passion; without passion, religion, history, novels, art would be ineffectual.

Quote by Honoré de Balzac about magic