I think cinema, movies, and magic have always been closely associated. The very earliest people who made film were magicians.
Quotes about magicians (16 Quotes)
I always wanted to go to the Chavez school but I could never afford it when I was growing up so a lot of my learning came from magic books and watching other magicians. I was also very lucky that I had a couple of really good magic teachers.
In a way, we are magicians. We are alchemists, sorcerers and wizards. We are a very strange bunch. But there is great fun in being a wizard.
Magicians seem to be able to carry out secret actions in front of their audience without being spotted. I'm interested in why people don't perceive those actions.
We're starting to realize that magicians have a lot of implicit know-ledge about how we perceive the world around us because they have to deceive us in terms of controlling attention, exploiting the assumptions we make when we do and don't notice a change in our environment. There is an enormous amount of really detailed instruction on how to perform magic. People are always blown away by how detailed a description you'll have.
Great liars are also great magicians.
Great magicians are often great marketers. They understand consumer behavior -- how to influence people to look in one direction and not another and how to communicate with people one-on-one in setting up a trick and explaining what's about to happen.
So when the truth came to them from Us they said This is most surely clear enchantment Musa said Do you say (this) of the truth when it has come to you Is it magic And the magicians are not successful.
Labor is the fabled magician's wand, the philosophers stone, and the cap of good fortune.
I've said it's a little bit like a magician performing for a convention of magicians... all the magicians in the audience watching this illusion-Do they see the illusion, or do they see the device that made the illusion Probably they see a little of both.
And she never could remember and ever since that day what Lucy means by a good story is a story which reminds her of the forgotten story in the Magician's Book.
Best Witchcraft is Geometry
To the magician's mind --
His ordinary acts are feats
To thinking of mankind.
Magicians can do more by means of faith than physicians by the truth.
My parents are responsible for the two things I like doing most - driving and magic tricks. They bought me my first go-kart and a magician's kit.
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 means they know how to make you aware of certain things and blind to other things. What I'm hoping is that magic, this entertainment vehicle that has been around for a long time, will give us a real insight into the deep mysteries of consciousness.
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.