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title: "5 Magic Art Quotes By Alan Moore"
description: "5 Magic Art quotes by Alan Moore. Plus more from Alan Moore and more Magic Art sayings from other authors."
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> [Magic and art tend to share a lot of the same language. They both talk about evocation, invocation, and conjuring.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/alan-moore/magic-and-art-tend-to-share-a-lot-of-the-same-language-they-both-talk/)

[Alan Moore](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/alan-moore/)

[Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/16b/alan-moore-583_art_magic-and-art-tend-to-share-a-lot-of-the_223994.jpg)

> [I don't distinguish between magic and art. When I got into magic, I realised I had been doing it all along, ever…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/alan-moore/i-don-t-distinguish-between-magic-and-art-when-i-got-into-magic-i/)

[Alan Moore](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/alan-moore/)

[Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/9bb/alan-moore-583_art_i-don-t-distinguish-between-magic-and-ar_778848.jpg)

> [There is some confusion as to what magic actually is. I think this can be cleared up if you just look at…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/alan-moore/there-is-some-confusion-as-to-what-magic-actually-is-i-think-this-can/)

[Alan Moore](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/alan-moore/)

[Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/922/alan-moore-583_art_there-is-some-confusion-as-to-what-magic_1457226.jpg)

> [For me, there is very little difference between magic and art. To me, the ultimate act of magic is to create something…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/alan-moore/for-me-there-is-very-little-difference-between-magic-and-art-to-me/)

[Alan Moore](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/alan-moore/)

[Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/ec2/alan-moore-583_art_for-me-there-is-very-little-difference-b_2230871.jpg)

> [I believe that magic is art, and that art, whether that be music, writing, sculpture, or any other form, is literally magic.…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/alan-moore/i-believe-that-magic-is-art-and-that-art-whether-that-be-music/)

[Alan Moore](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/alan-moore/)

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## More by Alan Moore

> [I think that storytelling and creation are very close to what the center of what magic is about. I think not just for me,…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/alan-moore/i-think-that-storytelling-and-creation-are-very-close-to-what-the/)

[Alan Moore](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/alan-moore/)

> [To some degree Satanism is purely a kind of disease of Christianity. You've got to really be Christian to believe in Satan.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/alan-moore/to-some-degree-satanism-is-purely-a-kind-of-disease-of-christianity/)

[Alan Moore](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/alan-moore/)

> [There has been a rather unpleasant sensibility apparent in Frank Miller's work for quite a long time.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/alan-moore/there-has-been-a-rather-unpleasant-sensibility-apparent-in-frank/)

[Alan Moore](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/alan-moore/)

> [I felt, if I'm going to react I might as well over react.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/alan-moore/i-felt-if-i-m-going-to-react-i-might-as-well-over-react/)

[Alan Moore](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/alan-moore/)

> [“Come, dry your eyes, for you are LIFE, rarer than a quark and unpredictable beyond the dreams of Heisenberg; the clay in which the…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/alan-moore/come-dry-your-eyes-for-you-are-life-rarer-than-a-quark-and/)

[Alan Moore](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/alan-moore/)

> [Now everything is wonderful and hazardous and nothing's hypothetical.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/alan-moore/now-everything-is-wonderful-and-hazardous-and-nothing-s-hypothetical/)

[Alan Moore](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/alan-moore/)

> [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…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/alan-moore/if-you-look-at-that-incredible-burst-of-fantastic-characters-that/)

[Alan Moore](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/alan-moore/)

> [In many ways, my entire graphic novel career was a long diversion. Originally, all I wanted to do was to be an underground cartoonist…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/alan-moore/in-many-ways-my-entire-graphic-novel-career-was-a-long-diversion/)

[Alan Moore](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/alan-moore/)

> [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…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/alan-moore/i-was-kind-of-a-selfish-child-who-always-wanted-things-his-way-and-i/)

[Alan Moore](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/alan-moore/)

> [Magic is a state of mind. It is often portrayed as very black and gothic, and that is because certain practitioners played that up…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/alan-moore/magic-is-a-state-of-mind-it-is-often-portrayed-as-very-black-and/)

[Alan Moore](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/alan-moore/)

> [“Above, great constellations wheeled to which our bonfire sparks ascended in their tiny mimicry”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/alan-moore/above-great-constellations-wheeled-to-which-our-bonfire-sparks/)

[Alan Moore](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/alan-moore/)

> [“You're my only remaining link to the world”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/alan-moore/you-re-my-only-remaining-link-to-the-world/)

[Alan Moore](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/alan-moore/)

> [Nothing ends, Adrian. Nothing ever ends.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/alan-moore/nothing-ends-adrian-nothing-ever-ends/)

[Alan Moore](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/alan-moore/)

> [On the one occasion where I did try writing a screenplay, I found the rewriting just unendurable.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/alan-moore/on-the-one-occasion-where-i-did-try-writing-a-screenplay-i-found-the/)

[Alan Moore](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/alan-moore/)

> [“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,…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/alan-moore/the-clothes-you-re-wearing-the-room-the-house-the-city-that-you-re-in/)

[Alan Moore](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/alan-moore/)

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