It is the unspoken ethic of all magicians to not reveal the secrets.
Newton was not the first of the age of reason, he was the last of the magicians.
Magic is something that seems like it goes against how the world works and its us magicians job to be doing that.
Magicians lose the opportunity to experience a sense of wonder.
Magicians have taken something intrinsically profound and made it look trivial.
One of the finest magicians you can see is David Oliver.
Do you realize how much better the world would be if we all just treated each other the same way black dudes treat magicians?
I started studying filmmakers, and I would say early on the ones that really inspired me the most were like the field magicians of music videos.
Those magicians who object to the use of blood, have endeavored to replace it with incense. But, the bloody sacrifice, though more dangerous, is more efficacious. And for nearly all purposes, human sacrifice is the best.
Magicians can do more by means of faith than physicians by the truth.
[Psychics] use exactly the same gimmicks that we magicians do - the same physical methods, the same psychological methods - and they effectively and profoundly deceive millions of people around the earth, to their detriment.
I think with The Magicians, the Harry Potter and Narnia influences are obviously there.
Some of the best ideas I've gotten for my act have come from comedians and not magicians.
Magic has a spiritual element, and is considered very important and of value, and magicians have always been a little bit silly, so if you're going to portray a modern day magician, there's gotta be a little silliness.
Dai Vernon, the greatest sleight of hand figure in the history of the art, rarely performed. But he invented magic and had an enormous influence on the whole range of sleight of hand. And so often the magic he was doing was to fool other magicians.
My mother brought me magicians and witches, because I was very ugly, really revolting. So she thought somebody had put a spell on me - this is the truth - so she made me drink some horrible terrifying potions, for year.
Do you believe then that the sciences would ever have arisen and become great if there had not before hand been magicians, alchemists, astrologers and wizards, who thirsted and hungered after abscondite and forbidden powers?
Mimes were invented to give magicians someone to look down on
The idea that I [should] trust my eyes more than the stats, I don't buy that because I've seen magicians pull rabbits out of hats and I know that the rabbit's not in there.
Dogs are the magicians of the universe.