Alan Moore Quotes About Language

Quotes about: Language

• It seems that every movie is a remake of something that was better when it was first released in a foreign language, as a 1960s TV show, or even as a comic book. Now you’ve got theme park rides as the source material of movies. The only things left are breakfast cereal mascots. In our lifetime, we will see Johnny Depp playing Captain Crunch.

  Alan Moore

  Book, Cereal, Tv Shows

  "Alan Moore On Watchmen’s “Toxic Cloud” And Creativity V. Big Business". Interview with Susan Karlin, www.fastcompany.com. February 14, 2012.

• I think that storytelling and creation are very close to what the center of what magic is about. I think not just for me, but for most of the cultures that have had a concept of magic, then the manipulation of language, and words, and thus of stories and fictions, has been very close to the center of it all.

  Alan Moore

  Thinking, Magic, Culture

  Alan Moore, Bill Baker (2007). “Alan Moore on His Work and Career”, p.7, The Rosen Publishing Group

• Language comes first. It's not that language grows out of consciousness, if you haven't got language, you can't be conscious.

  Alan Moore

  Firsts, Language, Consciousness

• The only reality we can ever truly know is that of our perceptions, our own consciousness, while that consciousness, and thus our entire reality, is made of nothing but signs and symbols. Nothing but language. Even God requires language before conceiving the Universe. See Genesis: “In the beginning was the Word.

  Alan Moore

  Reality, Perception, Language

• 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.

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