Illusionists Quotes

• 

  This is photo copyright © By Pumpkin Limited

  All spiritual practices are illusions created by illusionists to escape illusion.

  This is quotes copyright © By Pumpkin Limited

  Ram Dass

  Spiritual, Practice, Religion

  Ram Dass (2007). “One-Liners: A Mini-Manual for a Spiritual Life”, p.77, Harmony

  57 Copy quote

  Show source

• All artists are illusionists of one kind or another.

  Mike Svob

  Artist, Kind

  4 Copy quote

• A fundamental understanding of the human psyche is the essential key to successful magic.

  Jean Eugene Robert-Houdin

  Successful, Keys, Understanding

  65 Copy quote

• You don't get into magic. Magic gets into you.

  David Blaine

  Magic, Entertainers, Magic Tricks

  Interview with Clark Collis, www.theguardian.com. November 16, 2002.

  89 Copy quote

  Show source

• My Brain is the key that sets me free.

  Harry Houdini

  Freedom, Keys, Magic

  211 Copy quote

• The hard must become habit. The habit must become easy. The easy must become beautiful.

  Doug Henning

  Inspirational, Beautiful, Work

  65 Copy quote

• My private tragedy, which cannot, and indeed should not, be anybody's concern, is that I had to abandon my natural idiom, my untrammeled, rich, and infinitely docile Russian tongue for a second-rate brand of English, devoid of any of those apparatuses–the baffling mirror, the black velvet backdrop, the implied associations and traditions–which the native illusionist, frac-tails flying, can magically use to transcend the heritage in his own way.

  Vladimir Nabokov

  Mirrors, Flying, Black

  Vladimir Nabokov (2011). “The Annotated Lolita: Revised and Updated”, p.414, Vintage

  6 Copy quote

  Show source

• The Illusionist is the storyteller in so many ways. Symbols become his obsession. It's not simply about creating plot - one must also grapple with theme. Nowadays we have a lot of characters and a lot of action but it's hard to sit still and really meditate on meaning, worldviews, concepts, ideologies even. I make my Illusionist do what I've had to do, often with copious amounts of stumbling and frustration. His real humanity comes from being an artist, I think - his creativity is what makes him a man.

  Porochista Khakpour

  Real, Creativity, Character

  Source: therumpus.net

  4 Copy quote

  Show source

• We are all illusionists and that's why we are attracted to drag queens. This whole world is an illusion. It's not real.

  RuPaul

  Queens, Real, World

  6 Copy quote

• An actor is part illusionist, part artist, part ham.

  Oscar Wilde

  Artist, Theatre, Actors

  9 Copy quote

• I am an illusionist - that's why I create art.

  Marilyn Minter

  Art

  7 Copy quote

• Liberating but hard to remember we're just bit-parts in the lives of people we know, who care very little for our secrets

  Derren Brown

  People, Secret, Who Cares

  FaceBook post by Derren Brown from Jan 30, 2013

  14 Copy quote

  Show source

• To deceive gracefully is the very essence of social life. One must start by deceiving oneself, and make a lifelong practice of deceiving others; if one does it well enough, in time one might even become an artist, the greatest illusionists of all.

  Elspeth Huxley

  Artist, Essence, Practice

  Elspeth Huxley (2011). “The Mottled Lizard”, p.105, Random House

  4 Copy quote

  Show source

• Both poet and painter want to reach the silence behind the language, the silence within the language. Both painter and poet want their work to shine not only in daylight but (by whatever illusionist magic) from within.

  Howard Nemerov

  Science, Silence, Shining

  Howard Nemerov (1978). “Figures of thought: speculations on the meaning of poetry & other essays”

  5 Copy quote

  Show source