Derren Brown Quotes About Magic

• ...there is a fine line between wishing to produce child-like astonishment and treating people like infants.

  Derren Brown

  Children, People, Magic

• Magic is a performance, and a performance should have an honesty, a relevance and a resonance if it is to be offered to spectators without insulting them.

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  Honesty, Should Have, Insulting

• Magic is not inherently anything. It is what you sell it as.

  Derren Brown

  Magic, Sells

• A lot of unconfident kids do tricks because it's the quickest route to impressing people," he explains. "You can stand behind something amazing and people think you're amazing.

  Derren Brown

  Kids, Thinking, People

• When [the magician] clicks his fingers and cards change to the four aces, we know we have experienced sleight of hand. Real magic would not be quite that quick and easy. Real magic would take investment. Real magic would draw you in, and make you nervous.

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  Real, Hands, Magic

• In magic we have a variety of "uses" for our art beyond magic itself, which reminds me of the notion of art therapy. The rendering of art inferior to therapy is an interesting one: interesting in the sense that it makes me want to vomit angrily.

  Derren Brown

  Art, Interesting, Magic

• Dull magic is a collection of tricks: great magic should sting.

  Derren Brown

  Magic, Dull, Should

  "On Deception". Book by Harry Houdini, foreword, 2009.

• Booking an act for my Dad's 70th birthday, I wanted a great act and went straight to John Archer- his reputation in the magic world is among the very best. I was so pleased he was able to do it, and he absolutely brought the house down. It was brilliant, hysterically funny, and perfectly pitched for the occasion. He made the evening. I'd recommend him unreservedly.

  Derren Brown

  Dad, Archer, House

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