What is beyond their own power, the vulgar cannot comprehend to be lawfully in the power of others.

But if by magic you mean a perpetual research amongst all that is more latent and obscure in Nature, I answer, I profess that magic, and that he who does so comes but nearer to the fountain of all belief.

Knowest thou not that magic was taught in the schools of old?
But how, and by whom?
As the last and most solemn lesson, by the Priests who ministered to the Temple.

(Psellus de Daemon (MS.)) And you, who would be a painter, is not there a magic also in that art you would advance?
Must you not, after long study of the Beautiful that has been, seize upon new and airy combinations of a beauty that is to be?
See you not that the grander art, whether of poet or of painter, ever seeking for the TRUE, abhors the REAL; that you must seize Nature as her master, not lackey her as her slave?
"You demand mastery over the past, a conception of the future.

Has not the art that is truly noble for its domain the future and the past?
You would conjure the invisible beings to your charm; and what is painting but the fixing into substance the Invisible?
Are you discontented with this world?
This world was never meant for genius! To exist, it must create another.