At it's essence, art is an alchemical process. Alchemy is…

This process is alchemy: its founder is the smith Vulcan.

— Paracelsus

“Because it is a process of alchemy: it transforms a vast manifestation of spiritual energy, which is love, into a physical gesture”

— Paulo Coelho

Unconscious of your story, you are in its grasp; but with consciousness, an alchemical process begins: The solidity of the complex dissolves and you…

— Connie Zweig

“When you love something like reading - or drawing or music or nature - it surrounds you with a sense of connection to something…

— Anne Lamott

A great conductor is an alchemical force: someone who can absorb the historical weight of a famous melody, the expectations of an audience, and…

— Sue Perkins

What is the relationship of the obvious things that we see around us to the things that we believe we understand within ourselves? This…

— Fred Alan Wolf

“She pushed the book towards them, and Harry and Ron read: The ancient study of alchemy is concerned with making the Philosopher's Stone, a…

— J.K. Rowling

Everybody can close their eyes, picture a dream house or a perfect place [where] they'd like to have a picnic. But actually creating it…

— Billy Corgan

“Introspection does not need to be a still life. It can be an active alchemy.”

— Anaïs Nin

Every human being has gone through a tragedy of sorts. And the idea is that you have two paths you can take, you can…

— Jillian Michaels

“You must learn to bend to open windows, my friend. That is why artists and dancers are closest to God. They clench their chests…

— Suzy Kassem

“Art is Alchemy.”

— ELLE NICOLAI

“...the world is only the visible aspect of God. And that what alchemy does is to bring spiritual perfection into contact with the material…

— Paulo Coelho

As in the instances of alchemy, astrology, witchcraft, and other such popular creeds, political economy, has a plausible idea at the root of it.

— John Ruskin

“I went because I was interested in the alchemy of issues.”

— Joan Didion