Francesca Lia Block Quotes

The magic of childhood is the strangeness of childhood — the uniqueness that makes us see things that other people don't see.

Art is as heavy as sorrow, as light as a breeze, as bright as an idea, as pretty as a picture, as funny as money, and as fugitive as fraud!

He saw things in a way that others did not, so that a city I had lived in all my life seemed a different place, so that a woman became beautiful with the light on her face.

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.

Abstraction brings the world into more complex, variable relations; it can extract beauty, alternative topographies, ugliness, and intense actualities from seeming nothingness.

Even as a kid, I saw the world in my own way and thought most things that were different were beautiful and magical. Even things that other people thought were horrifying and disgusting and weird.

When I was little, I would always try and look into the television screen along the sides. I kept thinking if you looked in there, you could see what was happening off camera.

The pursuit of truth and beauty is a sphere of activity in which we are permitted to remain children all our lives.

I think art is more glorious than life but not more real.

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

I sometimes worry that all the beautiful things have been made.

The most beautiful thing we can experience is the mysterious. It is the source of all true art and science.

When you're a kid you have this sense of wonder and wholeness and a strong sense of your own identity.

You know when you're a child and your imagination is limitless and you really believe in magic? I thought I had super powers.

I don't know if I believe in art. I certainly believe in light.

The dumber the thing is, the more excitement I get from imagining a very complex world of truth around it.

Then I grew up, and the beauty of succulent illusions fell away from me.

In my actual imaginative contact with life, I am vastly more responsive to beauty than to horror - indeed, I never experience real cosmic horror except in infrequent nightmares. However, when I come to record my various imaginative experiences, I generally find that only the horror items have any uniqueness or originality. Others have seen the same beautiful things that I have seen, & have sung them more nobly.

Poetry is a way of looking at the world for the first time.

But thou that didst appear so fair To fond imagination, Dost rival in the light of day Her delicate creation.

Imagination comes from yourself and can deceive you, but vision is a gift from outside yourself - like light striking on your closed eyelids and lifting them to see what's really there.

In talking about a genius, you would not say that he lies; he sees realities with different eyes from ours.

When I was six years old I sprinkled sugar on my head, convinced myself it was pixie dust, wished myself invisible, and walked into the boys' bathroom at school.

Once in a golden hour, I cast to earth a seed, And up there grew a flower, That others called a weed.

Art is a never-ending dance of illusions.