The more I look at most of the art movements, it's all occultism, when you get down to it. The Surrealists were… — Alan Moore Copy Share Image
Art is, like magic, the science of manipulating symbols, words or images to achieve changes in consciousness — Alan Moore Copy Share Image
If the audience knew what they wanted then they wouldn't be the audience, they would be the artist. — Alan Moore Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
Perhaps this is the purpose of all art, all writing, on the murders, fiction and non-fiction: Simply to participate. — Alan Moore Copy Share Image
Art makes us feel less alone. It makes us think: somebody else has thought this, somebody else has had these feelings. — Alan Moore Copy Share Image
Magic and art tend to share a lot of the same language. They both talk about evocation, invocation, and conjuring. — Alan Moore Copy Share Image
Artists use lies to tell the truth. Yes, I created a lie. But because you believed it, you found something true about… — Alan Moore Copy Share Image
Life is a lot more interesting if you are interested in the people and the places around you. So, illuminate your little… — Alan Moore Copy Share Image
It is not the job of artists to give the audience what the audience want. If the audience knew what they needed,… — Alan Moore Copy Share Image
For me, there is very little difference between magic and art. To me, the ultimate act of magic is to create something… — Alan Moore Copy Share Image
There's a widespread cultural barrenness across art and political culture. But there are some pockets of resistance on the extreme margins, like… — Alan Moore Copy Share Image
To me, all creativity is magic. Ideas start out in the empty void of your head - and they end up as… — Alan Moore Copy Share Image
I don't really have any great interest in writing for movies. Comics, to me, is a much more promising field. There's still… — Alan Moore Copy Share Image
You've got to be able to pay your bills, otherwise you're not going to sleep at night. But beyond that, the world… — Alan Moore Copy Share Image
There is some confusion as to what magic actually is. I think this can be cleared up if you just look at… — Alan Moore Copy Share Image
I believe that magic is art, and that art, whether that be music, writing, sculpture, or any other form, is literally magic.… — Alan Moore Copy Share Image
I don't think there's really any difference between art - or writing, or music - and magic. And I particularly draw the… — Alan Moore Copy Share Image
I don't distinguish between magic and art. When I got into magic, I realised I had been doing it all along, ever… — Alan Moore Copy Share Image
I think that storytelling and creation are very close to what the center of what magic is about. I think not just for me,… — Alan Moore Copy Share
To some degree Satanism is purely a kind of disease of Christianity. You've got to really be Christian to believe in Satan. — Alan Moore Copy Share
There has been a rather unpleasant sensibility apparent in Frank Miller's work for quite a long time. — Alan Moore Copy Share
“Come, dry your eyes, for you are LIFE, rarer than a quark and unpredictable beyond the dreams of Heisenberg; the clay in which the… — Alan Moore Copy Share
If you look at that incredible burst of fantastic characters that emerged in the late 19th century/early 20th century, you can see so many… — Alan Moore Copy Share
In many ways, my entire graphic novel career was a long diversion. Originally, all I wanted to do was to be an underground cartoonist… — Alan Moore Copy Share
I was kind of a selfish child, who always wanted things his way, and I've kind of taken that over into my relationship with… — Alan Moore Copy Share
Magic is a state of mind. It is often portrayed as very black and gothic, and that is because certain practitioners played that up… — Alan Moore Copy Share
“Above, great constellations wheeled to which our bonfire sparks ascended in their tiny mimicry” — Alan Moore Copy Share
On the one occasion where I did try writing a screenplay, I found the rewriting just unendurable. — Alan Moore Copy Share
“The clothes you're wearing, the room, the house, the city that you're in. Everything in it started out in the human imagination. Your lives,… — Alan Moore Copy Share
