Aleister Crowley Quotes

My idea of magic doesn't have much to do with stage tricks and illusions. The whole world abounds in magic.

Art like life is an open secret.

For thousands of years, human beings have been obsessed with beauty, truth, love, honor, altruism, courage, social relationships, art, and God. They all go together as subjective experiences, and it's a straw man to set God up as the delusion. If he is, then so is truth itself or beauty itself.

To say the word Romanticism is to say modern art - that is, intimacy, spirituality, color, aspiration towards the infinite, expressed by every means available to the arts.

I select a very small number of things to be sceptical about, such as markets, and on these I am hypersceptic. But I want to be fooled by randomness in art. I want the ceremonial of religion; we are made for it.

Film remains completely mystical and mysterious to me.

Art evokes the mystery without which the world would not exist.

You can be very honest without telling the truth, at least in art.

Science is the special province of the ego. And magic and art are the special province of something else. I could name it, but I won't. It prefers to be unnamed

This Catholic thing, I think what it does is it makes a place for mystery in a person. And even when the faith goes away, there's that space where you crave something bigger than yourself. For me, that's kind of where art came in, after that.

Creatures are cups. The sciences and the arts and all branches of knowledge are inscriptions around the outside of the cups. When a cup shatters, the writing can no longer be read. The wine's the thing! The wine that's held in the mold of these physical cups. Drink the wine and know what lasts and what to love. The man who truly asks must be sure of two things: One, that he's mistaken in what he's doing or thinking now. And two, that there is a wisdom he doesn't know yet. Asking is half of knowing.

Poetry and art nourish the soul of the world with the flavor-filled substances of beauty, wisdom and truth.

Like a work of art, we exceed our materials. Science needs art to frame the mystery, but art needs science so that not everything is a mystery. Neither truth alone is our solution, for our reality exists in plural

People get inspired to write, paint, draw, sing, sculpt, dance in many different ways. And there are many types of art. But the one thing that they all have in common is that they are all a sort of magic. Sometimes the magic flows from one’s fingers, other times it is transferred to the person who experiences the result. Magic has always worked in mysterious ways.

A work of art is one of mystery, the one extreme magic; everything else is either arithmetic or biology.

The art of a magician is to create wonder. If we live with a sense of wonder, our lives become filled with joy.

Warriors are poets and poems and all the loveliness here in the worlds.

Numbersign questionmark you" and "Asterisk exclamation point the world.

Poetry has historically been allied with religion and morals; it has served the purpose of penetrating the mysterious depths of things.

What you try to become is a bringer of magic, for magic and the truth are closely allied and movies are sheer magic ... when they work, it's, well, it's glorious.

Music is Magic. Magic is Life

Poetry is a response to the daily necessity of getting the world right.

Mystery is the basic element of all works of art.

If there is any God in this world, He lives in a theatre.

We possess art lest we perish of the truth.