Magician Quotes

• The art of a magician is to create wonder. If we live with a sense of wonder, our lives become filled with joy.

  Doug Henning

  Art, Joy, Magic

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• You don't get into magic. Magic gets into you.

  David Blaine

  Magic, Illusionists, Entertainers

  Interview with Clark Collis, www.theguardian.com. November 16, 2002.

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• Magicians are the most honest people in the world; they tell you they're gonna fool you, and then they do it.

  James Randi

  People, World, Fool

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• The profession of magician, is one of the most perilous and arduous specializations of the imagination. On the one hand there is the hostility of God and the police to be guarded against; on the other it is as difficult as music, as deep as poetry, as ingenious as stage-craft, as nervous as the manufacture of high explosives, and as delicate as the trade in narcotics.

  William Bolitho

  Hands, Imagination, Police

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• The art of a magician is not found in the simple deception, but in what surrounds it, the construction of a reality which supports the illusion.

  Jim Steinmeyer

  Art, Simple, Reality

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• Misdirection. What the eyes see and the ears hear, the mind believes.

  John Travolta

  Believe, Eye, Mind

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• Make no mistake about it, magick is an art form, and every true magician is an artist.

  Lon Milo DuQuette

  Inspirational, Life, Art

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• Weak people talk and do not act, strong people act and keep quiet.

  Eliphas Levi

  Success, Strong, Procrastination

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• The real secret of magic lies in the performance.

  David Copperfield

  Real, Lying, Magic

  "The Dollar Meltdown: Surviving the Coming Currency Crisis with Gold, Oil, and Other Unconventional Investments" by Charles Goyette, (Ch. 6), 2009.

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• The expert magician seeks to deceive the mind, rather than the eye.

  Sol Stein

  Eye, Magic, Mind

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• There is magic, but you have to be the magician. You have to make the magic happen.

  Sidney Sheldon

  Magic, Happens

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• When people say you can't do it - that it's impossible - never lose hope. Just because they couldn't doesn't mean you can't.

  David Copperfield

  Mean, Positivity, Believe In Yourself

  FaceBook post by David Copperfield from May 28, 2012

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• Do not be a magician - be magic!

  Leonard Cohen

  Magic, Moral, Ethics

  Leonard Cohen (2011). “Beautiful Losers”, p.181, Vintage

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• For those who believe, no explanation is necessary; for those who do not believe, no explanation will suffice.

  Joseph Dunninger

  Atheist, Believe, Knowledge

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• If I don't fool you, I'm not doing my job as a magician.
  If I make you feel foolish, I'm not doing my job as a human being.

  Jerry Andrus

  Jobs, Fool, Feels

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  Love is the magician that pulls him out of his own hat.

  Ben Hecht

  Love, Valentines Day, Men

  "A Child of the Century".

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• My Brain is the key that sets me free.

  Harry Houdini

  Freedom, Keys, Magic

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• It is the duty of all magicians to give entertainment.

  John Henry Anderson

  Giving, Entertainment, Duty

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• As a magician, I think everything is possible. And I think if something is done by one person it can be done by others.

  David Blaine

  Motivation, Inspiration, Thinking

  "Is It Possible To Be Fearless?". Interview with Guy Raz, www.npr.org. May 23, 2014.

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• The magician and the politician have much in common: they both have to draw our attention away from what they are really doing.

  Ben Okri

  Magic, Attention, Common

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• In magic, today as always, the effect is what counts. The method or methods used are always purely secondary.

  Dai Vernon

  Magic, Today, Used

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• Unlike a mere deception or a simple secret, which gives the impression that something's been taken away, a great magician makes you feel like something's been given to you.

  Jim Steinmeyer

  Taken, Simple, Giving

  Jim Steinmeyer, Teller (2009). “Hiding the Elephant: How Magicians Invented the Impossible and Learned to Disappear”, p.22, Da Capo Press

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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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• Every true artist must, in his own way, be a magician, a charlatan.

  Orson Welles

  Artist, Way, Very True

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• A magician is an actor playing the part of a magician.

  Jean Eugene Robert-Houdin

  Magic, Actors

  Jean Eugène Robert-Houdin, Louis Hoffmann (2011). “Secrets of Conjuring and Magic: Or How to Become a Wizard”, p.43, Cambridge University Press

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