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“Painting isn’t an aesthetic operation; it’s a form of magic designed as mediator between this strange hostile world and us.”
Hieronymus Bosch, The Magician, 1475-80, oil on panel, 53 x 75 cm (Musée Municipal, Saint-Germain-en-Laye)
Dean Nimmer, History 539, 2009, monoprint on paper via Dean Nimmer - Abstract Art Galleries - Monoprints via elemenop
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“I don’t want realism. I want magic! Yes, yes, magic. I try to give that to people. I do misrepresent things. I don’t tell truths. I tell what ought to be truth.”
“Love can sometimes be magic. But magic can sometimes … just be an illusion.”
(via untoldchorusgirlmemoirs)
“Reality is merely an illusion, albeit a very persistent one.”
“I’m aware of the mystery around us, so I write about coincidences, premonitions, emotions, dreams, the power of nature, magic.”
“There is a place, like no place on earth. A land full of wonder, mystery, and danger. Some say, to survive it, you need to be as mad as a hatter. Which, luckily, I am.”
The lover, via actegratuit
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“Science is a way of talking about the universe in words that bind it to a common reality. Magic is a method of talking to the universe in words that it cannot ignore. The two are rarely compatible.”
