#magic

Art is a sense of magic. ↗

— Stan Brakhage

#magic #sense

So many plays with magic in them that would be a terrific invitation to an imaginative animation team. ↗

— Kenneth Branagh

#imaginative #invitation #magic #many #plays

Doing the right thing for someone else was like a tonic for me; it was like some magic ointment that made a wound disappear. ↗

— Susie Bright

#doing #doing the right thing #else #like #made

I had a toy theater and a magic lantern, and when I was eight I built a stage for theatricals in the attic. ↗

— James Broughton

#built #eight #had #i #lantern

Burn down your cities and leave our farms, and your cities will spring up again as if by magic; but destroy our farms and the grass will grow in the streets of every city in the country. ↗

— William Jennings Bryan

#burn #cities #city #country #destroy

Magic is at the core of myths. ↗

— Colin Farrell

#magic #myths

To comprehend Crowley, one must comprehend what he meant by "Magick"—the "discredited" tradition he swore to "rehabilitate." Magick, for Crowley, is a way of life that takes in every facet of life. The keys to attainment within the magical tradition lie in the proper training of the human psyche itself—more specifically, in the development of the powers of will and imagination. The training of the will—which Crowley so stressed, thus placing himself squarely within that tradition—is the focusing of one's energy, one's essential being. The imagination provides, as it were, the target for this focus, by its capacity to ardently envision—and hence bring into magical being—possibilities and states beyond those of consensual reality. The will and imagination must work synergistically. For the will, unilluminated by imagination, becomes a barren tool of earthly pursuits. And the imagination, ungoverned by a striving will, lapses into idle dreams and stupor. ↗

— Lawrence Sutin

#magick #dreams

A kiss can be like the world turning over. It can be like the tide of a dragon's dream washing through the unseen world that is hidden to mortal eyes but that nevertheless permeates our being. It can be hot and cold together, as vast as the heavens and yet specific to the pressure of hands and the parting of lips. It raised more intense feelings than I had expected, like being engulfed in a storm of lightning. ↗

— Kate Elliott

#kate-elliott #kiss #dreams

I always wanted to go to the Chavez school but I could never afford it when I was growing up so a lot of my learning came from magic books and watching other magicians. I was also very lucky that I had a couple of really good magic teachers. ↗

— Lance Burton

#also #always #books #came #chavez

The magic doesn't come from within the director's mind, it comes from within the hearts of the actors. ↗

— James Cameron

#comes #director #hearts #magic #mind