Anthropology Quote by Wyatt MacGaffey

Art is a sense of magic.

— Stan Brakhage

Art is spiritual.

— John Cusack

Do not imagine that art or anything else is other than high magic! - is a system of holy hieroglyph. The artist, the initiate,…

— Aleister Crowley

Art arises in those strange complexities of action that are called human beings. It is a kind of human behavior. As such it is…

— Baker Brownell

Their 'magic' is Art, delivered from many of its human limitations.

— Anonymous

I wouldn't say the anthropologists were making art, but they were definitely justifying their practices with very personal reasoning, passion, and they were also…

— Aleksandra Mir

That is why we profess a spiritual kinship with primitive and archaic art.

— Mark Rothko

Magic touches people in the way great art does. It lets them see the world with new eyes.

— Drummond Money-Coutts

“In the case of someone who is spiritual receptive, it is possible to talk of an analogy between the impact made by a work…

— Andrei Tarkovsky

The more I look at most of the art movements, it's all occultism, when you get down to it. The Surrealists were openly talking…

— Alan Moore

In other words, the unique value of the "authentic" work of art has its basis in ritual, the location of its original use value.…

— Walter Benjamin

“The work of art still has something in common with enchantment: it posits its own, self-enclosed area, which is withdrawn from the context of…

— Adorno, Theodor W