perhaps the only magician we have is the artist.

Make no mistake about it, magick is an art form, and every true magician is an artist.

— Lon Milo DuQuette

Like a stage magician, the con artist misdirects suspicion. While everyone’s watching for him to pull a rabbit out of a hat, he’s actually…

— Holly Black

“A great magician is not more magical than other magicians; he is just more magical in his presentation.”

— Amit Kalantri

“The work of art still has something in common with enchantment: it posits its own, self-enclosed area, which is withdrawn from the context of…

— Adorno, Theodor W

I think for Lev [Grossman], C. S. Lewis was a huge inspiration from his childhood. I know that Brideshead Revisited is a book that…

— Hale Appleman

My dad's a prominent theatre director in Toronto, so I grew up in that world, directing and producing theater since I was a teenager.…

— Ed Gass-Donnelly

“A room that motivates you to dream is like a magician who gives you wings to fly!”

— Mehmet Murat ildan

I'm a big Penn & Teller fan. But I myself was never very good; I was a teenage magician who performed at kids' parties.…

— Ira Glass

Poetical taste is the only magician whose wand is not broken. No hand, except its own, can dissolve the fabric of beauty in which…

— Robert Aris Willmott

“If only I were a magician who could make things possible. I'd give objects the gift of defiance: banisters, gramaphones, guns, the napes of…

— Saša Stanišić

“He was going to sign the papers and he was going to be a motherfucking magician.”

— Lev Grossman

“This is the man who thinks too much, who stands back from his life and never lives it. He is caught in a web…

— Robert L. Moore

In all forms of magick, the imagination or image-making faculty is the most important factor

— Kenneth Grant

Most magicians consider the palm an easy move to make. They are inclined to believe that they are 'getting away with it,' when they…

— Dai Vernon

“He sighed. "Look, love, I know I seem like a tactical genius, but really, I'm just a magician who occasionally kills a bunny or…

— Delilah S. Dawson