Art Quote by Tom Robbins

“The longer Ellen Cherry thought about it, the more convinced she became that the mission of the artist in an overtechnologized, overmasculinized society was…

— Tom Robbins

I think that old magic draws much of its strength from that acknowledgment: that we are a part of that world.

— Robin Hobb

My basic mission as an artist is to communicate with people. Therefore, I am conscious I have to make films that people can digest.

— Balachandra Menon

Perhaps the mission of an artist is to interpret beauty to people - the beauty within themselves.

— Langston Hughes

Out of the fictitious book I get the expression of the life, of the times, of the manners, of the merriment, of the dress,…

— William Makepeace Thackeray

“I perceive that I am neither a planter of the backwoods, pioneer, nor settler there, but an inhabitant of the Mind, and given to…

— Anonymous

In our society many of the old rituals have lost much of their power. New ones have not arisen.

— R. D. Laing

“We have, let us face it and admit it, little influence. We prey on them, and we take from them, and we get by;…

— Neil Gaiman

“An old magic that has not been seen on this earth for five hundred years is awakening, turning the impossible into the probable.”

— Aubrie Nixon

There were really a bunch of old, old magic hobbyists at the time, some of them who actually had known [Harry] Houdini. You had…

— David Copperfield

Old Magic, Old Ways, the Old Ones themselves often seem powerless in a new place.

— Anne Cameron

I am adding another language to the spoken language, and I am trying to restore to the language of speech its old magic, its…

— Antonin Artaud

“There probably are, but you would need a thaumaturge for that. They have books upon books of old magic. We only have Google.”

— Victoria Escobar

“Magic is a very beautiful mystery. Even the ages old magic effects still surprises the most modern men.”

— Amit Kalantri

Plainly, the environment must be a living one, directed by a higher intelligence, arranged by an adult who is prepared for his mission.

— Maria Montessori