Alan Moore Quotes About Art

Quotes about: Art

• 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.

  Alan Moore

  Art, Believe, Writing

• To me, all creativity is magic. Ideas start out in the empty void of your head - and they end up as a material thing, like a book you can hold in your hand. That is the magical process. It's an alchemical thing. Yes, we do get the gold out of it but that's not the most important thing. It's the work itself.

  Alan Moore

  Art, Book, Writing

  "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

• There is some confusion as to what magic actually is. I think this can be cleared up if you just look at the very earliest descriptions of magic. Magic in its earliest form is often referred to as “the art”. I believe this is completely literal. I believe that magic is art and that art, whether it be writing, music, sculpture, or any other form is literally magic.

  Alan Moore

  Art, Believe, Writing

• Art is, like magic, the science of manipulating symbols, words or images to achieve changes in consciousness

  Alan Moore

  Art, Magic, Consciousness

• For me, there is very little difference between magic and art. To me, the ultimate act of magic is to create something from nothing: It's like when the stage magician pulls the rabbit from the hat.

  Alan Moore

  Art, Differences, Magic

• Life is a lot more interesting if you are interested in the people and the places around you. So, illuminate your little patch of ground, the people that you know, the things that you want to commemorate. Light them up with your art, with your music, with your writing, with whatever it is that you do.

  Alan Moore

  Art, Writing, Light

• Art makes us feel less alone. It makes us think: somebody else has thought this, somebody else has had these feelings.

  Alan Moore

  Art, Thinking, Feelings

• I don't think there's really any difference between art - or writing, or music - and magic. And I particularly draw the link between magic and writing. I think that they are profoundly connected.

  Alan Moore

  Art, Writing, Thinking

  Interview with Peter Bebergal, believermag.com. June 1, 2013.

• You've got to be able to pay your bills, otherwise you're not going to sleep at night. But beyond that, the world inside my head has always been a far richer place than the world outside it. I suppose that a lot of my art and writing are meant to bring the two together.

  Alan Moore

  Art, Sleep, Writing

  "Alan Moore: why I turned my back on Hollywood". Interview with Tom Lamont, www.theguardian.com. December 15, 2012.

• As I see it, part of the art of being a hero is knowing when you don't need to be one anymore.

  Alan Moore

  Art, Hero, Knowing

  Alan Moore, John Higgins (2005). “Watchmen”, Dc Comics

• Perhaps this is the purpose of all art, all writing, on the murders, fiction and non-fiction: Simply to participate.

  Alan Moore

  Art, Writing, Purpose

• There's a widespread cultural barrenness across art and political culture. But there are some pockets of resistance on the extreme margins, like the techno-savvy protest movements, small press, the creator-owned comics, that seem to be getting some signs of hope for the future.

  Alan Moore

  Art, Political, Pockets

• 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.

  Alan Moore

  Art, Magic, Twelve

  Interview with Matthew De Abaitua, www.harrybravado.com. October 1, 2011.

• The more I look at most of the art movements, it's all occultism, when you get down to it. The Surrealists were openly talking about being magicians.

  Alan Moore

  Art, Talking, Movement

  Interview with Matthew De Abaitua, www.harrybravado.com. 1998.

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

  Alan Moore

  Art, Magic, Language

  "'Hey, You Can Just Make Stuff Up.' Differences Between Magic And Art: None" by Peter Bebergal, "The Believer", 2013.

• I don't really have any great interest in writing for movies. Comics, to me, is a much more promising field. There's still a lot of ground to be broken in comics, whereas movies, to a degree... I don't know. They're a wonderful art form, but they're not my favorite art form. They might not even be in the top five of my favorite art forms.

  Alan Moore

  Art, Writing, Broken

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