David Blaine Quotes

What is magic? There is the wizard's explanation... wizards talk about candles, circles, planets, stars, bananas, chants, runes and the importance of having at least four good meals every day.

I do not worship the devil. But magic does intrigue me. Magic of all kinds. I bought Crowley's house to go up and write in. The thing is, I just never get up that way. Friends live there now.

To work magic is to weave the unseen forces into form; to soar beyond sight; to explore the uncharted dream realm of the hidden reality.

The world is magic. Science is but an insipid style of sorcery.

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 was ugly—-a hard bargain with the universe, a calculus of pain.

BEFORE I DISCOVERED THE miracles of science, magic ruled the world.

I put the ick in magic.

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

Magic--that's just a label, you know. Completely meaningless. It wasn't so very long ago that people were saying that electricity was magic.

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

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.

By some strange operation of magic I seem to have become the power of the land.

That's the perennial appeal of magic - that we ourselves have power and we can shape our world. I sometimes think its very analogous to having a lot of money that people think - 'cause that's kind of like a super power.

To practice magic is to bear the responsibility for having a vision.

He hardly ever spoke of magic, and when he did it was like a history lesson and no one could bear to listen to him.

Besides prostitution, magic is one of the oldest art forms that exist.

Magic [makes] possible today what science will make a reality tomorrow.

We are the nation of dreams. We are seers. We are wizards. We speak in visions. Our letters are like flocks of doves, released from under our hats. We have only to stretch out our hand and desire, and what we wish for settles like a kerchief in our palm. We are a race of sorcerers, enchanters. We are Atlantis. We are the wizard-isle of Mu.

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

Magic is the craft of shaping, the craft of the wise, exhilarating, dangerous - the ultimate adventure. The power of magic should not be underestimated. It works, often in ways that are unexpected and difficult to control.

Magic gives you a lot of choices," Grandad says. "Most of them are bad.

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.