J. K. Rowling Quotes

Magic is my paint.

I don’t distinguish between magic and art. When I got into magic, I realised I had been doing it all along, ever since I wrote my first pathetic story or poem when I was twelve or whatever. This has all been my magic, my way of dealing with it.

I believe that magic is art, and that art, whether that be music, writing, sculpture, or any other form, is literally magic. Art is, like magic, the science of manipulating symbols, words or images, to achieve changes in consciousness… Indeed to cast a spell is simply to spell, to manipulate words, to change peoples consciousness, and this is why I believe that an artist or writer is the closest thing in the contemporary world to a shaman.

Magic has universal appeal. I don't believe in magic in the way that I describe in my books, but I'd love it to be real.

What really happens is that the story-maker proves a successful 'sub-creator'. He makes a Secondary World which your mind can enter. Inside it, what he relates is 'true': it accords with the laws of that world. You therefore believe it, while you are, as it were, inside. The moment disbelief arises, the spell is broken; the magic, or rather art, has failed. You are then out in the Primary World again, looking at the little abortive Secondary World from outside.

O, she's warm! If this be magic, let it be an art Lawful as eating.

Magic and art tend to share a lot of the same language. They both talk about evocation, invocation, and conjuring.

Technology is 50% of rock 'n' roll - the magic, the art, the performance. If you don't have good technicians and a strong road crew who are devoted and believe in you and protect you, you're totally naked.

No magic. I do believe you might have taken it all with you when you went away.

Magic is the art of thinking, not strength or language.

I think acting is magic. If I tell you all about myself it will spoil it.

I totally believe in magic. Because my life, I think, has been very magic, and magical things have come true for me time after time after time.

Magic has often been thought of us the art of making dreams come true; the art of realizing visions. Yet before we can bring birth to the vision we have to see it.

I'm not a magician. I'am an alchemyst, a man of science, though perhaps not the science you would be familiar with.

Real art must always involve some witchcraft.

MAGIC, n. An art of converting superstition into coin. There are other arts serving the same high purpose, but the discreet lexicographer does not name them.

I believe that the combination of pencil and memory creates a kind of practical magic, and magic is dangerous.

He is a dull observer whose experience has not taught him the reality and force of magic, as well as of chemistry.

And as much as I’d like to believe there’s a truth beyond illusion, I’ve come to believe that there’s no truth beyond illusion. Because, between ‘reality’ on the one hand, and the point where the mind strikes reality, there’s a middle zone, a rainbow edge where beauty comes into being, where two very different surfaces mingle and blur to provide what life does not: and this is the space where all art exists, and all magic.

Let us not mince words: the marvelous is always beautiful, anything marvelous is beautiful, in fact only the marvelous is beautiful.

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

[At a musical concert:] . . . the music's pure algebra of enchantment.

We need not wait for the world to become more mystical; the world is mystical. Our problem is not that the world lacks magic; our problem is that we don't believe in its magic. We do not show up fully for life, and then wonder why life is not showing up more fully for us.

Art is enchantment and artists have the right of spells.

If we believe in magic, we'll live a magical life.