Magic becomes art when it has nothing to hide.
"Ben Okri" OBE FRSL is a Nigerian poet and novelist. Okri is considered one of the foremost African authors in the postmodern literature/post-modern and postcolonial literature/post-colonial traditions and has been compared favourably to authors such as Salman Rushdie and Gabriel García Márquez.
If you enjoy these quotes, be sure to check out other famous poets! More Ben Okri on Wikipedia.Politics is the art of the possible; creativity is the art of the impossible.
The worst realities of our age are manufactured realities. It is therefore our task, as creative participants in the universe, to re dream our world. The fact of possessing imagination means that everything can be re dreamed. Each reality can have it.
The most authentic thing about us is our capacity to create, to overcome, to endure, to transform, to love and to be greater than our suffering.
The magician and the politician have much in common: they both have to draw our attention away from what they are really doing.
Reading, like writing, is a creative act. If readers only bring a narrow range of themselves to the book, then they'll only see their narrow range reflected in it.
Stories can conquer fear, you know. They can make the heart bigger.
The fact of storytelling hints at a fundamental human unease, hints at human imperfection. Where there is perfection there is no story to tell.
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