Aldous Huxley Quotes

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

MAGIC, n. An art of converting superstition into coin. There are other arts serving the same high purpose, but the discreet lexicographer does not name them.

Magic is easy if you put your heart into it.

This is how magic is done. By hurling yourself into the abyss and discovering its a feather bed.

Using words to describe magic is like using a screwdriver to cut roast beef.

Magic, historically, has been a man doing tricks with no wider story behind it.

Of course, in all magic tricks there's a secret.

But the whole idea of the transformation... mystery, transformation, and manipulations - those were the things that Marcel was a magician at. That's his magic.

Magic becomes art when it has nothing to hide.

Magic is really performing special effects live.

There is no magic. There are only magicians.

I've always loved magic.

Only to a magician is the world forever fluid, infinitely mutable and eternally new. Only he knows the secret of change, only he knows truly that all things are crouched in eagerness to become something else, and it is from this universal tension that he draws his power.

Magic is always impossible.... It begins with the impossible and ends with the impossible and is impossible in between. That is why it's magic.

Magic has often been thought of us the art of making dreams come true; the art of realizing visions. Yet before we can bring birth to the vision we have to see it.

Resident mockery, give us an hour for magic.

I always say that I love magic but I hate magicians. I like being fooled. If you wave your hands in front of my face and I think you're doing a trick, I'm easily impressed. If you pull a quarter out of my ear, I'm quite certain you're a wizard. But I don't like the way most magicians don't act like they're magical; they act like show business dicks.

Well, Henry, you can cease frowning at me. If I am a magician, I am a very indifferent one. Other adepts summon up fairy-spirits and long-dead kings. I appear to have conjured the spirit of a banker.

As I did more of that, I realized, "Well, maybe I should do more magic."

Magic was a thing that, when I did it, it made all the kids go, "Ah, that's cool."

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

Magic: (n) The art of converting superstition into coin.

I don’t distinguish between magic and art. When I got into magic, I realised I had been doing it all along, ever since I wrote my first pathetic story or poem when I was twelve or whatever. This has all been my magic, my way of dealing with it.

I discovered at the age of six that everything was a phony, worked with mirrors. Since then, I've always wanted to be a magician.