Mystical Arts Quotes

O divine art of subtlety and secrecy!

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.

Magic is not inherently anything. It is what you sell it as.

I do not worship the devil. But magic does intrigue me. Magic of all kinds. I bought Crowley's house to go up and write in. The thing is, I just never get up that way. Friends live there now.

Using words to describe magic is like using a screwdriver to cut roast beef.

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.

The old spelling MAGICK has been adopted throughout in order to distinguish the Science of the Magi from all its counterfeits.

Magic: (n) The art of converting superstition into coin.

I discovered at the age of six that everything was a phony, worked with mirrors. Since then, I've always wanted to be a magician.

To work magic is to weave the unseen forces into form; to soar beyond sight; to explore the uncharted dream realm of the hidden reality.

But magic is like pizza: even when it's bad, it's pretty good.

Magick is the Art of Life itself.

Resident mockery, give us an hour for magic.

To practice magic is to bear the responsibility for having a vision.

Magic's quite a solitary pursuit - a thing you can do for hours and hours, getting better and better.

...magic was ugly—-a hard bargain with the universe, a calculus of pain.

Magic [makes] possible today what science will make a reality tomorrow.

I can teach you how to bottle fame, brew glory, even put a stopper on death.

The island of Gont, a single mountain that lifts its peak a mile above the storm-racked Northeast Sea, is a land famous for wizards.

I always say that I love magic but I hate magicians. I like being fooled. If you wave your hands in front of my face and I think you're doing a trick, I'm easily impressed. If you pull a quarter out of my ear, I'm quite certain you're a wizard. But I don't like the way most magicians don't act like they're magical; they act like show business dicks.

He hardly ever spoke of magic, and when he did it was like a history lesson and no one could bear to listen to him.

This is how magic is done. By hurling yourself into the abyss and discovering its a feather bed.

Tarot cards likely originated in northern Italy during the late 14th or early 15th century. The oldest surviving set, known as the Visconti-Sforza deck, was created for the Duke of Milan's family around 1440. The cards were used to play a bridge-like game known as tarocchi, popular at the time among nobles and other leisure lovers.

Magic is what we do, music is how we do it.

BEFORE I DISCOVERED THE miracles of science, magic ruled the world.