Magician's Quotes Compilation

[Quicho]

Quotes keep us inspired.

What quotes inspire you? What quotes do you want to share?

“In truth, the only restrictions on our capacity to astonish ourselves and each other are imposed by our own minds.” - David Blaine

"If you want to further advance magic, do better magic. I never want to stop learning. The minute you think you know everything is the kiss of death" - Criss Angel

 

[louis]

i don't remember the quote exactly
so if some one knows it correct me please
but it's something like
'' some say magician works with demon.. (really not sure what it's supose to say here)
blabla so let me DEMONstrate to you.. ]
yeah i only remember the end
sorry

 

[hijackedmagic]

My brain is the key that sets my mind free.

- Harry Houdini

 

[Dima]

"Be yourself" - love ya Dai!

 

[Captain Jack Sparrow]

M.S. Mahendra
"The art of magic is fast passing out of the picture in my opinion. Today the youthful magician cares little about the art. He want's to know how much it costs and how soon can he learn do it." (Linking Ring, Sept 1952)

Not a very happy thought, but seems to be the case with most young "magicians" of today, who just want to be "t3h awsome nu genirashin of majic!!1!!"

The very idea gives me convulsions.

 

[sky_lark]

“Magic is believing in yourself, if you can do that, you can make anything happen.” -- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe.

 

[Dizzi]

might be a little bias for reasons only some people know why:

"Why fool a magician when you can fool the people who matter?" - David Fulde

 

[Isaac Kane]

"no man should regret dying for a good act, in fact it is a privilage!"-Houdini
(im an escape artist which is y i like this quote)

"oh what a tangled web we weave when we first practice to decieve"-Sir Walter Scott
This one basically is y magic is in existance

 

[aznofspades]

"...like magic
there's a certain feeling you get
when you reel and you spit
and people are feeling your sh*t,
this is your moment and every single minute you spitting
trying to hold on to it
cuz you may never get it again"


(from the greatest magician ever) EMINEM haha

This quote basically covers everything I feel about when you perform, how you have to capture the moment.

“The magic isn’t in the trick, it’s in the [audience’s] eyes.”

David Blaine

The basic concept of his whole special, it's all about the spectator.

"For those who believe no explanation is necessary, for those who do not, none will suffice"

Dunninger

This quote, I don't know. If they don't believe wouldn't the explanation of the trick suffice? haha

"Nobody ever wrote a rule book on magic. Not one rule book."

Daniel Garcia

It reminds me that we gotta push the boundaries, break rules creatively.

Mike

 

[SorenErik]

"Mundus vult decipi, ergo decipiatur"

Translation: The world wants to be deceived, so let it be deceived.

Credited to Petronius (27-66 A.D.)

 

[Ben Long]

"When you're standing on the edge of the abyss, you have either to jump or turn back, you can't just stand there forever."

--Hunter S. Thompson.

 

[JDENredden]

Not really a magician but

''Think inside the box, every one is to bust thinking out side it''
De'vo

JDEN

 

[Sinful07]

The secret to life is to enjoy the pleasure of being Terribly.. Terribly.. Deceived.


-Oscar Wilde (Discovered through the Indecent DVD by wayne Houchin *its in the intro!* )

 

[Sean_Raf]

"I don't think anybody can lay down exact rules, and anyway, every rule in any art can be broken! Rules can be broken, in any art." - Dai Vernon 'The Professor'

A quote I agree with most earnestly, love it.

- Sean

 

[praetoritevong]

i don't remember the quote exactly
so if some one knows it correct me please
but it's something like
'' some say magician works with demon.. (really not sure what it's supose to say here)
blabla so let me DEMONstrate to you.. ]
yeah i only remember the end
sorry

I believe you're talking about the patter for Aaron Fisher's The Omen - "People often asten ask if I perform sleight of hand or if I do real magic. There is a very real difference between the two. Sleight of hand is fast fingers, consummate skill. Real magic is the work of the devil. Allow me to demonstrate - or should I say demon-strate?"

Keep in mind that that's just patter.

"Mundus vult decipi, ergo decipiatur"

Translation: The world wants to be deceived, so let it be deceived.

Credited to Petronius (27-66 A.D.)

Geez, I love latin so much... <3 Haha. I was full analysing the grammatical construction of that sentence as I read the line.

 

[rousselle]

"oh what a tangled web we weave when we first practice to decieve"-Sir Walter Scott

If I recall correctly, the correct quote is:

"Oh what a tangled web we weave, when first we practice to deceive."

A follow-up has been variously attributed:

"But when we've practiced quite a while, how vastly we improve our style!" --

 

[FOO:L]

sometimes after people see my show they come up to tell me they liked the show and i uh...what i'll do is reach into my pocket grab a handful of change and throw it at their eyes. its not nice and it doesnt make any sense.. but i feel its important to remain mysterious.
-michael kent.