Audience Quote by Chuck Close

Illusion starts between the ears. If the person doing illusion doesn't believe it, then the audience doesn't believe it. Seeing the picture in your…

— RuPaul

Magicians are the people who began to use film as an illusion on stage.

— David Copperfield

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

— Paul LePaul

“Not a single person in that audience believes for a second that what I do up there is real,” he says, gesturing in the…

— Erin Morgenstern

“A magician creates magic and mesmerizes the audience. But it is a pantomime, and the audience knows that it’s a ruse. It’s in the…

— Laura Lam

Like when you go to a magic show and you know how they do the illusions. That's how I am when I watch any…

— Renee O'Connor

It's not an optical illusion. It just looks like one.

— Nikhil Saluja

When the audience enjoys your performance, you feel like a magician who is doing magic. It's a great feeling!

— Kailash Kher

The nature of illusion is that, when you see through it, it disappears.

— Mooji

Some people see what they want to see.

— Maggie Stiefvater

Someone creates a trick, many people perfect it, but its final success in front of an audience depends on the person who presents it.

— Rene Lavand

Magicians are manipulating your consciousness. They are showing you something impossible. They're getting you to construct a narrative, which simply isn't true. So that…

— Richard Wiseman