in the magical universe there are no coincidences and there are no accidents. nothing happens unless someone wills it to happen
Black magic operates most effectively in preconscious, marginal areas. Casual curses are the most effective.
I see painting as an evocative magic, and there must always be a random factor in magic, one which must be constantly changed and renewed.
It is to be remembered that the origin of all the arts-music, painting and writing-is magical and evocative; and that magic is always used to obtain some definite result.
I know that Nature designs that this whole continent, not merely these thirty-six states, shall be, sooner or later, within the magic circle of the American union.
