Marco Tempest Quotes

Magic and new technology have always walked hand in hand - even back in the days of Robert Houdin.

I'm an engineer. I see myself as a toolmaker and the musicians are my customers... They use my tools.

A writer is an artist. They're creating things out of thin air.

Technology will never rescue anyone from being a bad poet, but if you're good, it has the potential to do a lot of exciting things.

Engineering is the closest thing to magic that exists in the world.

There's no map for being an artist.

You put the right artist on the right track in the studio and leave the door open to let God in.

The whole point of being an artist is to have no agenda. To say, you know, I don't know what I am going to do tomorrow, I don't know what it's going to look like, and I'm going to have a go at it.

The artist may be well advised to keep his work to himself till it is completed, because no one can readily help him or advise him with it... but the scientist is wiser not to withhold a single finding or a single conjecture from publicity.

It is only the unimaginative who ever invents. The true artist is known by the use he makes of what he annexes.

An artist must have imagination. An artist who does not use his imagination is a mechanic.

Surprisingly, I don't throw away that much. I don't move forward with a lot of things unless they're going somewhere. You also have to remember that when you're working with other artists, you have to be really careful about how you deal with that stuff.

Every human being is an artist

To create anything… is to believe, if only momentarily, you are capable of magic.

All artists are entrepreneurs. All entrepreneurs are artists.

When the artist is alive in any person, whatever his kind of work may be, he becomes an inventive, searching, daring, self-expressing creature.

You are both a work of art and an artist at work.

You need others. Too often people think that being unique means being isolated, and being a great artist means coming up with genius ideas out of nowhere. Nothing could be farther from the truth.

The hallmark of an artist is generosity.

To be an artist, you have to nurture the things that most people discard.

an artist is always seeking revelation.

The artist who uses the least of what is called imagination will be the greatest.

Those people who recognise that imagination is reality's master, we call sages, and those who act upon it, we call artists.

The engineers of the future will be poets.

Design is a tool that allows us to reach out and inspire, to touch others and help make lives magic and wonderful