Magician Quotes - Page 3

• Magicians are the people who began to use film as an illusion on stage.

  David Copperfield

  People, Use, Film

  "David Copperfield Talks NOW YOU SEE ME on Blu-ray/DVD, His Collaboration on the Film, Drawing Inspiration from Cinema, and Being a Good Showman". Interview with Christina Radish, collider.com. September 8, 2013.

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• Before one can become a magician he must learn to control his own mind; for mind is the substance with which the magician acts, and the power to control it is the beginning of magic.

  Franz Hartmann

  Magic, Mind, Substance

  Franz Hartmann (2006). “Magic White and Black”, p.222, Book Tree

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• Conjuring is the only absolutely honest profession - the conjuror promises to deceive, and does.

  Karl Germain

  Magic, Promise, Doe

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• It is the unspoken ethic of all magicians to not reveal the secrets.

  David Copperfield

  Magic, Secret, Ethics

  "'King of Magic' Copperfield brings interactive show to PAC". Interview with Ryan Chartrand, mustangnews.net. February 27, 2007.

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• I'm fascinated by the similarities and differences between comedians and magicians.

  David Copperfield

  Differences, Comedian, Similarity

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• The soul is a magician. Only living flesh hampers it.

  Tanith Lee

  Soul, Flesh, Hamper

  Tanith Lee (2016). “Death's Master”, p.20, Penguin

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• I know magicians and I know magic and I say this: all magicians lie and this one more than most.

  Susanna Clarke

  Lying, Magic, Knows

  Susanna Clarke (2009). “Jonathan Strange and Mr Norrell”, p.234, Bloomsbury Publishing

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• Most magicians are nothing more than laymen with rabbits on their business cards

  Darwin Ortiz

  Rabbits, Cards, Business Card

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• Love stories are only fit for the solace of people in the insanity of puberty. No healthy adult human being can really care whether so-and-so does or does not succeed in satisfying his physiological uneasiness by the aid of some particular person or not.

  Aleister Crowley

  Love, People, Insanity

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• Disbelief in magic can force a poor soul into believing in government and business.

  Tom Robbins

  Believe, Humor, Government

  Tom Robbins (2003). “Even Cowgirls Get the Blues”, p.82, Bantam

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• Frauds master our minds; magicians, like poets and lovers, engage them in a permanent maze of possibilities.

  Adam Gopnik

  Magic, Mind, Mazes

  "The real work" by Adam Gopnik, www.newyorker.com. March 17, 2008.

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• From the very beginning, I studied acting, directing, lighting, dance and movement. I didn't rely on just the magic to take place. It's a shame that a lot of magicians just rely on the trick itself and they have no other abilities. They get away with the wonder factor, and I don't think that's enough. It's great, but it's not enough.

  David Copperfield

  Thinking, Magic, Acting

  "David Copperfield Talks NOW YOU SEE ME on Blu-ray/DVD, His Collaboration on the Film, Drawing Inspiration from Cinema, and Being a Good Showman". Interview with Christina Raddish, collider.com. September 8, 2013.

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• Magicians lose the opportunity to experience a sense of wonder.

  David Copperfield

  Opportunity, Magic, Wonder

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• Hookers do tricks, magicians make magic.

  Dick Christian

  Magic, Tricks

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• In all forms of magick, the imagination or image-making faculty is the most important factor

  Kenneth Grant

  Imagination, Magic, Important

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• Through the darkness of future past, the magician longs to see, one chance out between two worlds, fire walk with me!

  David Lynch

  Past, Fire, Two

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• I was coming to realize that the real magician was light itself.

  Edward Steichen

  Photography, Real, Light

  Edward Steichen, Museum of Modern Art (New York, N.Y.) (1963). “A Life in Photography”, Random House Value Pub

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• Magicians guard an empty safe.

  Jim Steinmeyer

  Magic, Safe, Empty

  Jim Steinmeyer, Teller (2009). “Hiding the Elephant: How Magicians Invented the Impossible and Learned to Disappear”, p.16, Da Capo Press

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• The magician depends for the success of his art upon the credulity of the people. Whatever mystifies, excites curiosity; whatever in turn baffles this curiosity, works the marvelous.

  Alexander Herrmann

  Art, People, Curiosity

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• A magician is only an actor - an actor pretending to be a magician.

  Harry Houdini

  Actors, Pretending

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• Scientists have calculated that the chances of something so patently absurd actually existing are millions to one. But magicians have calculated that million-to-one chances crop up nine times out of ten.

  Terry Pratchett

  Good Luck, Science, Magic

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• Magicians have taken something intrinsically profound and made it look trivial.

  Jamy Ian Swiss

  Taken, Profound, Magic

  "The real work" by Adam Gopnik, www.newyorker.com. March 17, 2008.

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• A magician is strong because he feels the pain between what the
  world is and what he would make of it.

  Lev Grossman

  Strong, Pain, World

  Lev Grossman (2015). “The Magicians Trilogy”, p.173, Penguin

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• Dai Vernon, the greatest sleight of hand figure in the history of the art, rarely performed. But he invented magic and had an enormous influence on the whole range of sleight of hand. And so often the magic he was doing was to fool other magicians.

  Ricky Jay

  Art, Hands, Magic

  "Seven Lies About Lying". Interview with Errol Morris, opinionator.blogs.nytimes.com. August 5, 2009.

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• According to the universal laws, the magician will form his own point of view about the universe which henceforth will be his true religion.

  Franz Bardon

  Views, Law, Magic

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