Charles de Lint Quotes

I never can feel certain of any truth, but from a clear perception of its beauty.

Witchery is merely a word for what we are all capable of.

The world is full of magical things patiently waiting for our wits to grow sharper.

It's a fine line between magic and science. In medieval times, science was magic.

When the people of the world all know beauty as beauty, There arises the recognition of ugliness. When they all know the good as good, There arises the recognition of evil.

Truth exists for the wise, beauty for the feeling heart.

The beauty that is there is also available for me, too. But I see a deeper beauty that isn't so readily available to others.... I don't see how studying a flower ever detracts from its beauty. It only adds

It is my eyes which see, and the sight of my eyes grants beauty to the earth.

I think making things beautiful is important. But often what's first considered ugly is beautiful, too.

But if you do believe, then you already know all about magic.

There is creation in the eye.

There is nothing that is more beautiful than everything else in the world.

Mystic: a person who is puzzled before the obvious, but who understands the non-existent.

I had seen faces in photographs I might have found beautiful had I known even vaguely in what beauty was supposed to consist. And my father's face, on his death-bolster, had seemed to hint at some form of aesthetics relevant to man. But the faces of the living, all grimace and flush, can they be described as objects?

The world is not magic - and that's the most magical thing about it.

There is none so blind as he who will not see. We must not close our minds, we must let our thoughts be free. For every hour that passes by, we know the world gets a little bit older, it's time to realize that beauty lies in the eyes of the beholder.

My idea being that for the sublime and the beautiful and the interesting, you do not have to look far away. You have to know how to see.

Your eyes have died, but you see more than I.

A mystic is a man who treats his feelings as tools of cognition.

It is only framed in space that beauty blooms; only in space are events, and objects and people unique and significant and therefore beautiful.

The ever-present phenomenon ceases to exist for our senses. It was a city dweller, or a prisoner, or a blind man suddenly given his sight, who first noted natural beauty.

Venus de Milo. To a child she is ugly. When a mind adjusts to thinking of her as a completeness, even though, by physiologic standards, incomplete, she is beautiful.

At the heart of art is learning to see

When I walk with a camera, I walk from shot to shot, reading the light on a calibrated meter. When I walk without a camera, my own shutter opens, and the moment's light prints on my own silver gut. When I see this second way I am above all an unscrupulous observer.

Courage is the quality most essential to understanding the language of the world.