#magic

The painting is not on a surface, but on a plane which is imagined. It moves in a mind. It is not there physically at all. It is an illusion, a piece of magic, so that what you see is not what you see. ↗

— Philip Guston

#imagined #magic #mind #moves #painting

The show is being changed right now, by the way. Jeff Burke is doing it for the Magic Kingdom. And I think it will be better, with new birds, master of ceremonies, etc. ↗

— John Hench

#better #birds #ceremonies #changed #doing

Christmas waves a magic wand over this world, and behold, everything is softer and more beautiful. ↗

— Norman Vincent Peale

#behold #christmas #everything #magic #magic wand

Only those few who are able to surpass their fear of death completely can fully experience the highest forms of life; not the mundane life of the mortal, but the godly life of the resurrected. ↗

— Zeena Schreck

#buddhism #death #left-hand-path #magic #parenting

The beginning of a friendship, the fact that two people out of the thousands around them can meet and connect and become friends, seems like a kind of magic to me. But maintaining a friendship requires work. I don't mean that as a bad thing. Good art requires work as well. ↗

— Charles de Lint

#art #bad #bad thing #become #beginning

How or by what magic is it, that we convey our thoughts to one another with such case and accuracy? ↗

— Henry Martyn

#another #case #convey #how #magic

Like when you go to a magic show and you know how they do the illusions. That's how I am when I watch any movies where they have people flying through the air. ↗

— Renee O'Connor

#am #any #flying #go #how

This town of churches and dreams; this town I thought I would lose myself in, with its backward ways and winding roads leading to nowhere; but, I found myself instead. -Magic in the Backyard (excerpt from American Honey) ↗

— Kellie Elmore

#country #finding-yourself #inspiring #journey #literature

The universe is full of magical things, patiently waiting for our wits to grow sharper. ↗

— Eden Phillpotts

#grow #magical #our #patiently #sharper

You never see animals going through the absurd and often horrible fooleries of magic and religion. . . . Only man behaves with such gratuitous folly. It is the price he has to pay for being intelligent but not, as yet, quite intelligent enough. ↗

— Aldous Huxley

#magic #religion #superstition #intelligence