Magicians' Quotes Quotes BBCode BBCode End "A conjurer is not a juggler, he is an actor playing the part of a magician" magician" Robert Houdin "Remember, your not your props, create the magic." Harry Blackstone r. "...there is a !ne line beteen ishing to produce child# like astonishment and treating people like infants." $erren Bron %Absolute &agic' "Be natural" $ai (ernon ")he most important thing is presentation" $a*id Copper!eld. +t is better for a man to honor his profession than to be honored by it.Robert Houdin "runt, foam at the mouth, and otherise get psychic" )heodore )heodore Annemann Annemann %/ractical %/ractical &ental E0ects' E0ects' +1e*er tell the auidience ho good you are, they ill soon !nd out for themsel*es.Harry Houdini +)here is nothing orse than good magic at the rong time.$a*id Roth +1e*er apologi2e, it3s all part of the trick.Harry 4orayne +$on3t run hen your not being chased.$ai (ernon
+ood timing is in*isible. Bad timing sticks out a mile. )ony Corinda +ðods may *ary, but principles ne*er change.Ron Bauer +)he orst reason to do magic is the desire to display your superiority to your fello humans.Roberto iobbi "5or those ho belie*e no e6planation is necessary, for those ho do not, none ill su7ce." oe $unninger "4ook for all the orld like you8re counting the brain cells in his cranium." )heodore Annemann %/ractical &ental E0ects' "At the !nish of the e0ect look at the audience9 if they ha*e gone hite in the face, froth at the mouth ith e6citement,shake at the knees or get don on the :oor and salaam you#it is ;uite a fair trick." )ony Corinda "Ho are you coming into the e0ect< Ho are you getting out<" $ai (ernon +Conjuring is a profession in hich no one errs through e6cess of modesty.Robert Houdin +)he personality must be bigger than the prop.Harry Blackstone =r. +4et art conceal art ). 1elson $ons %Art of &agic' +&ost magicians consider the palm an easy mo*e to make. )hey are inclined to belie*e that they are >getting
aay ith it,3 hen they are in fact fortunate enough to ha*e a polite audience.$ai (ernon "Caught in the di7culty of mystifying, magicians often forget that the !rst role of the artist is to communicate a beautiful idea." Raymond )eller of /enn ? )eller "Audiences are far from being as dumb as some performers seem to think." )heodore Annemann "t asn8t just about doing tricks. t8s about taking an audience to another place, a special place, so they can really suspend their disbelief. ts about ama2ing the audience as ell as mo*ing them." $a*id Copper!eld. +&ake them think they3*e been fooled by a gentlemen.Hoard )hurston +Comedy born of beilderment is the only comedy that should be in magic.$ai (ernon +A good general chooses his battle!eld. )ony =lydini +&isdirect A44 the time.5red @aps "/eople like being fooled by a gentleman." 1ate 4eip2ig +A fundamental understanding of the human psyche is the essential key to successful magic.Robert Houdin +Be yourself.-
$ai (ernon +)he *ery best method for a trick is the easiest method, and it is the method that should be used.Hugard and Braue ")he art of a magician is to create onder. f e all li*e ith a sense of onder, our li*es ill become !lled ith joy." )he reat $oug Henning "f you ant to hide it, /aint it red" Brad Henderson "ithout proper presentation, the best sleight of hand is nothing more than a feat of juggling." 1ate 4eip2ig "&agic is not tricks it is a ay." )enkai shida "/erform as many times as you can in front of people you don8t kno." 4ance Burton "Eye8s follo energy more than motion." Brad Henderson ")here are no good or bad tricks. )here are only ell and badly presented tricks." Raynaly %A 5rench magician' "f you labor like a mouse, and gi*e birth to an elephant, that8s magic but if you labor like an elephant and gi*e birth to a mouse, that8s tragic." =ol =tone
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"Brad "not great" Henderson" #Brad Henderson )hat as funny. Currently my fa*orite ;uote. )hat and the folloing9 "e are not actors playing the part of a magician. e are Real 4ife &agicians, ho happen to be doing an Act" #arrett )homas "t has been argued that people of this day and age do not belie*e in magic. 1othing could be further from the truth. )hey only o0er resistance to outdated myths, but ne ones are constantly assimilated" #ohn Carney +e should ne*er allo presentation to become a casualty of method.#)ommy onder +&agic is a performance, and a performance should ha*e an honesty, a rele*ance and a resonance if it is to be o0ered to spectators ithout insulting them.# $erren Bron +hen a performance is o*er, hat remains< 5un can be forgotten, but poerful emotion also disappears and good arguments lose their thread. hen emotion and argument are harnessed to a ish from the audience to see more clearly into itself # then something in the mind burns# 5rom /eter Brooks3s )he Empty =pace +Astonishment is not an emotion that3s created. t3s an e6isting state that3s re*ealed.#/aul Harris +&agic is not inherently anything. t is hat you sell it
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"&agic is not the manipulation of objects, but the manipulation of people8s perceptions."
&agic is hat happens to a person8s mind hen a mystery is e6perienced it is an emotional e6perience, not an e6terior, objecti*e e*ent. # =.H. =harpe
")he real secret of magic lies in the performance." # $a*id Copper!eld
"Before there can be onders, there must be onder." # $a*id Copper!eld
"$on8t do it 4et it be done"
