David Blaine Quotes

I'd like to bring magic back to the place it used to be 100 years ago.

It's really hard to think of one kind of magic as a favorite. I've been really fortunate in that I've been able to perform such a diverse range of things.

In a way, we are magicians. We are alchemists, sorcerers and wizards. We are a very strange bunch. But there is great fun in being a wizard.

I was always interested in enchantment and magicians and still am.

There is no magic. There are only magicians.

I love witches and magic and dress-up and make-believe.

Magic is my paint.

I like to say magic is the world's second oldest profession, a mystical and often awe-inspiring spectacle that, throughout the ages, has blended superstition, trickery and religion.

Magic becomes art when it has nothing to hide.

The Wizard of Ooze

I've got magic. I've got poetry at my fingertips.

Magic is a powerful art that can support a weak performer.

To practice magic is to be a quack; to know magic is to be a sage.

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

I did magic all my life from the time I was 12, and I like to tap into the magic from history.

I don't like magic.

I am a fan of magic and fantasy, particularly when it's grounded in reality.

I think every fantasy reader secretly believes they know how magic works.

After being in Harry Potter, I believe a bit more in magic than I did before.

For me, a great fantasy is real people, a world I recognise, human struggle and magic. You've got to have magic to make a fantasy work. But I like my magic to be subtle. I don't want magic coming out of the hands of wizards. I want it to be pervading, sinister somehow.

I'm a fantasy writer, called a fantasy writer. But there's very little, apart from one or two basic concepts in 'I Shall Wear Midnight,' which are in fact fantasy. You have sticks that fly, but they're practical broomsticks, with a bloody great strap that you can hold on to so you don't fall off. And you try not to use them too often.

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.

I don't particularly have any magical ambitions, but then, I never did. I just enjoyed the game.

Carefully take notice of witches, charmers, and all such abusers of the people.

The Wizard War