David Blaine Quotes

For me, the most exciting thing is to create good magic that's entertaining for an audience, and it would be lovely if a magician was fooled as well.

We all enjoy a magic show, but we don't demand a Q&A afterward explaining how it was done.

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

Well, I also love magic, which is, you know, different than showmanship. Magic's an art where you use slight of hand or illusion to create wonder.

Magic's an art where you use slight of hand or illusion to create wonder. And I was just intrigued with that idea.

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.

The real secret of magic lies in the performance.

I'm doing everything I can to take the magician out of the equation of magic.

There's magic all around us: Our smartphones are magical, 3-D printers are magical. So I feel that as a magician, if I can pull off something that seems real and convincing enough that I can explain why it's happening and have people believe it, it really is fascinating. And funny.

If you do sleight of hand without trying to cheat someone, that's what magic is.

A clever conjurer is welcome anywhere, and those of us whose powers of entertainment are limited to the setting of booby-traps or the arranging of apple-pie beds must view with envy the much greater tribute of laughter and applause which is the lot of the prestidigitator with some natural gift for legerdemain.

If you do magic, it's the quickest most fraudulent route to impressing people.

All magic is 'Here’s a quarter, now it’s gone. You’re a jerk. Now it’s back. You’re an idiot. Show’s over.'

My interest was magic, believe it or not. I became an amateur magician and did something like 400 magic shows through my teen years.

But when I go off stage I don't have a deck of cards with me all the time.

In circuses, there is a lot of magic. Things become other things.

One of my rules is never explain. A writer is a lot like a magician, if you explain how the trick works then a lot of the magic turns mundane.

If you want to talk about magic, the stuff that blows me away is the stuff that's done close up.

I grew up like Athena - covered with playing cards instead of armor - and, at the age of seven, materialized on a TV show, doing magic.

The problem with stage magic is that it looks really good, but everyone knows there's a trick box.

Part of show business is magic. You don't know how it happens.

I'm friends with Criss Angel. Criss has offered me a million times to go downstairs and see the setup. I don't want to see it. I just want to go, 'God, how did you do that?'

Magic becomes art when it has nothing to hide.

I've always performed magic as a kid.

When you're learning how to do magic, the first rule is 'never reveal a secret.' In a way, by telling someone I'm a magician, it kind of gives away the best secret of all... How interesting to take the magician out of the equation of a magic show.