David Blaine Quotes

Magicians lose the opportunity to experience a sense of wonder.

The art of a magician is to create wonder. If we live with a sense of wonder, our lives become filled with joy.

It's still magic even if you know how it's done.

I'm a great believer in the beauty and the power of surprise.

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.

I can write, He floated up to the ceiling, and a baby rabbit came out of his pocket, grew wings, and flew away. And you will believe that it really happened. That's magic, isn't it?

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

The magic of creation has always fascinated me.

This time it had been magic. And it didn't stop being magic just because you found out how it was done.

Wonder is like grace, in that it's not a condition we grasp; it grasps us. Wonder is not an obligatory element in the search for truth. We can seek truth without wonder's assistance. But seek is all we'll do; there will be no finding. Unless wonder descends, unlocks us ... truth is unable to enter. Wonder may be the aura of truth, the halo of it. Or something even closer. Wonder may be the caress of truth, touching our very skin.

I look with wonder at that which is before me.

I would like to evoke the sense of wonder and magic in the reader but without invoking the mystical, the supernatural or the transcendent.

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.

I don't think you can say something is or isn't magic. That's what was cool about Houdini, because he was a magician who had a magic show, but he was also an escape artist, and they kind of, over time, blended together. They both kind of enhance each other, I think.

I hope people remember me as a guy who brought magic to the people. You know, pushed the boundaries of wonder.

When I'm an audience member I do not want to go and see something that I already know, I want to see something that I don't know. I want to be surprised and stimulated to think about something. I want the magic. I want to be in a situation of uncertainty; that's what excites me.

I'd always wanted to do these types of things - pieces of magic I could put out not as illusions, but really doing it.

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.

I see the world as a magical place. Therefore, it was only natural that magic wafted from my fiction like smoke.

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

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 think that the ideal space must contain elements of magic, serenity, sorcery and mystery.

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

This is magic we're talking about. It's supposed to go places science can't, defy logic, wink at technology, fill us all with the sensawunda that comes of gazing upon a fictional world and seeing something truly different from our own.

I loved 'Fantasia' as a kid because it filled me with wonder, enchantment and awe. It was my first real introduction into classical music. It was totally inspiring to me.