Magic becomes art when it has nothing to hide.
Interpretation
Art reveals truth and authenticity without concealment.
This quote highlights the idea that true art transcends mere tricks or illusions; it embodies honesty and openness. When magic, which often implies deception or illusion, is expressed as art, it transforms into something profound and genuine, revealing deeper truths rather than hiding behind façades.
In practice
This quote can be used in an art class to inspire students about the authenticity in their work.
One human life is deeper than the ocean. Strange fishes and sea-monsters and mighty plants live in the rock-bed of our spirits. The whole of human history is an undiscovered continent deep in our souls. There are dolphins, plants that dream, magic birds inside us. The sky is inside us. The earth is in us.
Our time here is magic! It's the only space you have to realize whatever it is that is beautiful, whatever is true, whatever is great, whatever is potential, whatever is rare, whatever is unique, in. It's the only space.
Don't despair too much if you see beautiful things destroyed, if you see them perish. Because the best things are always growing in secret.
I began my writing life as a poet, so poetry has always been fundamental. I evolved from poetry to journalism to stories to novels. But poetry was always there.
The acknowledged legislators of the world take the world as given. They dislike mysteries, for mysteries cannot be coded, or legislated, and wonder cannot be made into law. And so these legislators police the accepted frontiers of things.
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I joyfully hasten to meet death. If it come before I have had opportunity to develop all my artistic faculties, it will come, my hard fate notwithstanding, too soon, and I should probably wish it later - yet even then I shall be happy, for will it not deliver me from a state of endless suffering?
Writing isn’t a career choice. It’s self-medication that over time precipitates the madness it was meant to ward off.
So every creative act strives to attain an absolute status; it longs to create a world of beauty to triumph over chaos and convert it to order.
I think there's a difference between a working actor, a movie star and a celebrity. They're all three different things.
The curves of your lips rewrite history.
There is force and vitality in a first sketch from life which the after-work rarely has. You want a picture to seize you as forcibly as if a man had seized you by the shoulder! It should impress you like reality!
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