Quotes About Illusionists

#1. Feminists amuse me more than illusionists. They are the only type of people that can make an illogical argument seem even more illogical with paintings of delusions.

Lionel Suggs

#2. Magic is the stunning art of surprising your audience, so that nothing else surprises them.

Amit Kalantri

#3. Magicians made magic but critics made it tricks.

Amit Kalantri

#4. Online advertising works, although it lands especially on search engines like Google and Yahoo. They achieve much higher revenues online than the websites of publishing companies.

Hubert Burda

#5. 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

#6. When I did my first few television specials, my illusions were so advanced that it took a couple of years before the other illusionists could even figure out what I was doing, let alone try to imitate me.

Doug Henning

#7. I've definitely grown, and I think I've done enough stuff that people might look at me only as Veronica Mars. But honestly, I really don't mind if they do.

Kristen Bell

#8. Happiness is within the reach of everyone, rich or poor. Yet comparatively few people are happy. I believe the reason for this is that the majority don't recognize happiness even when it is within their grasp.

Robert Baden-Powell

#9. And you have to be careful with illusionists: sometimes evil deceives us by assuming the simplest form of things.

Donato Carrisi

#10. The Krishna of the Gita is perfection and right knowledge personified, but the picture is imaginary.

Mahatma Gandhi

#11. Magic is the only honest profession. A magician promises to deceive you and he does.

Karl Germain

#12. My father looked on in disbelief, overwhelmed that his son had been taught to eat glass and relish it.

Tahir Shah

#13. A great piece of music make people to close their eyes but a great magic effect make their eyes wide open.

Amit Kalantri

#14. My enemy is not the average white guy, its not the kid down the block or the kids I see on the streets. My enemy is the white I don't see: the people in The white House, the corporate monoply owners. Fake liberal politicians-those are my enemies.

Immortal Technique

#15. No government is safe unless it is protected by the good will of the people.

Cornelius Nepos

#16. A magician reveals himself not only by the magic he presents but also by the respect and entertainment he gives to his audience.

Amit Kalantri

#17. The genius of a great magician is as impressive as the genius of a great scientist.

Amit Kalantri

#18. That was the difference, he had always known, between his faith and theirs, the political leaders of the people who cared only for things like the state, the republic: this child was more important than a whole continent.

Graham Greene

#19. As a magician you will miss the hundred percent of the applause if you don't perform.

Amit Kalantri

#20. All artists are illusionists of one kind or another.

Mike Svob

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

Marilyn Minter

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

Ram Dass

#23. Our lives are but specks of dust falling through the fingers of time. Like sands of the hourglass, so are the days of our lives.

Socrates

#24. 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

#25. A magician must always value his magic effects more than himself, because after few years audience may not remember his name but they will remember his magic effect.

Amit Kalantri

#26. In order to be something, you must do something.

Alejandro Jodorowsky

#27. She saw now that he was like an illusionist who captivated women with a little sleight of hand and once she had seen the mechanism it had lost all power for her.

Anna Godbersen

#28. If you can't sublimate your fear of mortality into sex with your best friend, what's it there for?

Justin Taylor

#29. Our culture will stand in roaring ovations for the illusionists, escape artists, and magicians. Deception is everything opposite the truth.

Billy Graham

#30. Joy comes not through possession or ownership but through a wise and loving heart.

Gautama Buddha

#31. If you are a magician then you can always do a lot more magic than you think you can.

Amit Kalantri