“It's still magic even if you know how it's done.”
Variant: It doesn't stop being magic just because you know how it works.
Source: A Hat Full of Sky
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English author 1948–2015Related quotes

Quote in Jorn's letter to anthropologist Francis Huxley (1970) - on the magical character of thinking and images
1959 - 1973, Various sources
Interview with Martin Gayford, "Hockney and the secrets of the Old Masters" http://www.telegraph.co.uk/arts/main.jhtml?xml=/arts/2001/09/22/bagay22.xml The Telegraph(22 September 2001)
2000s
"Ghosts of Wind and Shadow" in Dreams Underfoot : The Newford Collection (2003), p. 183