Enchantment Quotations

Unlike memory, which confirms and reinforces itself, history contributes to the disenchantment of the world.

In figure painting, the type of all painting, I have endeavoured to set forth that the principal if not sole source of life enchantments are Tactile Values, Movement and Space Composition.

It is the dim haze of mystery that adds enchantment to pursuit.

It (enchantment) started when the earth was born. It never stops. It is, always. It's just here.

To live without that enchantment of beauty is to interpret frugality and simple living with a puritan literalism

That is why your sacrifice was all the more difficult. You chose to be a hero not through enchantment but through your own manhood.

I do not understand how anyone can live without some small place of enchantment to turn to.

Maybe all wondrous books appear in our lives the way Milo’s tollbooth appears, an inexplicable gift, cast up by some curious chance that comes to feel, after we have finished and fallen in love with the book, like the workings of a secret purpose. Of all the enchantments of beloved books the most mysterious-the most phantasmal-is the way they always seem to come our way precisely when we need them.

My life is like a music-hall,Where, in the impotence of rage,Chained by enchantment to my stall,I see myself upon the stageDance to amuse a music-hall.

Although, of course, my definition of evil is not everybody else's. Evil is being involved in the glamour and charm of material existence, glamour in its old Gaelic sense meaning enchantment with the look of things, rather than the soul of things.