Hello fellow magic enthusiasts,

I am trying to compile a list of quotes about magic for an upcoming project to be released. They can be brief or they can be long. They don't have to be by magicians but rather anything ABOUT or PERTAINING to magic. ie "the most beautiful thing we can experience is the impossible - Einstein" or "confusion is not magic - Vernon" etc.

I would appreciate any of your favorites. Be sure to include the credit if available.

thanks in advance
shawn

"For those who believe, no evidence is necessary, for those who don't, none will suffice."

Joseph Dunninger

Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic.

Arthur C. Clarke

I don't do magic, but it happens all around me and sometimes I get blamed!

faucon of Sakin'el

Facts + Fairies = Effects
Louis Scutenaire

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Here's another:

Conjuring is the only truly honest profession - the magician promises to deceive and he does. Carl Germain

"I can't really do magic. I can only help you see it."
Peter Samelson

From "God is Alive, Magic is Afoot" by Leonard Cohen

God is alive, magic is afoot
God is afoot, magic is alive
Alive is afoot, magic never died
God never sickened
Many poor men lied
Many sick men lied
Magic never weakened
Magic never hid
Magic always ruled
God is afoot, God never died
God was ruler
Though his funeral lengthened
Though his mourners thickened
Magic never fled
Though his shrouds were hoisted
The naked God did live
Though his words were twisted
The naked magic thrived
Though his death was published
Round and round the world
The heart did not believe

"...if you're Good at something, Never do it for Free..." ~ Joker from Batman The Dark Knight

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The Impossible I do immediately, while create Miracle might take a little longer - David Berglass

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These are awesome! Keep em coming guys!

Here's one of my favorites: "With great power comes great responsibility" - uncle Ben

"The only way to improve a trick is to find a simpler and more direct way of doing it."
Paul LePaul

"...any effect to be successful must first be founded upon a simple method and then be performed with a direct to-the-point presentation."
Theo Annemann

"Genuine magic demands on perfect simplicity of execution."
Jean Hugard

"Imagination is more important than knowledge."
Albert Einstein

"If the actions used in performing sleights are visible or even suspected by the onlooker, the whole illusion of magic is destroyed."
Jean Hugard

"Magic is the illusion which is created when a series of natural movements apparently causes an unnatural, or magical, result."
Jean Hugard

"The illusion of magic is an idealistic fantasy; it exists only in the imagination of the spectator."
Paul LePaul

"It is presentation which lifts the card trick from the level of the commonplace puzzle to the status of an unforgettable and inexplicable mystery."
Jean Hugard

"In magic, today as always, the effect is what counts. The method or methods used are always purely secondary."
Dai Vernon

"Magic is the apparent defiance of natural laws. Before magic can become magic, the audience must know that the thing the magician seems to be doing, is, in actuality, impossible."
John Mulholland

The Magic is You! – Jay Ose

Again, thank you!
keep em coming!

shawn

Laymen are not fooled by what they see - they're fooled by what they THINK THEY SEE! Harry L.

Here's a couple favorites:

"Life without mystery is like a candle with a snuffed out flame" - albert Einstein

"Magicians have God in their hearts and the Devil in their hands" - San Giovanni Bosco

Does anyone have a favorite quote from Expert At the Card Table?

Thank you, old Grasshoppa!

"In offering this book to the public the writer uses no sophistry as an excuse for its existence. The
hypocritical cant of reformed (?) gamblers, or whining, mealymouthed pretensions of piety, are not foisted as a
justification for imparting the knowledge it contains. To all lovers of card games it should prove interesting, and
as a basis of card entertainment it is practically inexhaustible. It may caution the unwary who are innocent of
guile, and it may inspire the crafty by enlightenment on artifice. It may demonstrate to the tyro that he cannot
beat a man at his own game, and it may enable the skilled in deception to take a post-graduate course in the
highest and most artistic branches of his vocation. But it will not make the innocent vicious, or transform the
pastime player into a professional; or make the fool wise, or curtail the annual crop of suckers; but whatever the
result may be, if it sells it will accomplish the primary motive of the author, as he needs the money."


Brian

"Things are more like they are today than they've ever been before."

"No matter where you go, there you are."