Words matter. These are the best David Blaine Quotes, and they’re great for sharing with your friends.
Magic’s an art where you use slight of hand or illusion to create wonder. And I was just intrigued with that idea.
I think magic, whether I’m holding my breath or shuffling a deck of cards, is pretty simple. It’s practice, it’s training, and it’s – It’s practice, it’s training and experimenting, while pushing through the pain to be the best that I can be.
It was just like a digital fixation with cards and math and science and then I started to look at images of great magicians from Houdini down the line.
We are all capable of infinitely more than we believe.
My only fear is the unknown.
I’ve always liked artists like Chris Burden, who would take performances, put them in galleries, and then do things that were on the edge.
I’d go to Coney Island to hang out, and I saw a magician doing a rope trick on the boardwalk. I was fascinated. I guess that’s how it started.
I’d always wanted to do these types of things – pieces of magic I could put out not as illusions, but really doing it.
Well, I also love magic, which is, you know, different than showmanship. Magic’s an art where you use slight of hand or illusion to create wonder.
Whether you’re shuffling a deck of cards or holding your breath, magic is pretty simple: It comes down to training, practice, and experimentation, followed up by ridiculous pursuit and relentless perseverance.
I think great whites are the most beautiful and perfect creatures I’ve ever seen.
I do a lot of research on what people have done in the past.
My mother was a teacher, and when she wanted to show me art and literature and science, she’d take me to museums, parks and free exhibitions.
But as they say about sharks, it’s not the ones you see that you have to worry about, it’s the ones you don’t see.
I consider myself a showman, and I love magic, and I love art, and I love performance, and they’re all separate.
As a kid I used to hold my breath longer than anybody else, and then I heard stories about people accidently underwater for 45 minutes – how do you recover from that? It’s not a miracle. Something allows us to survive.
I think anybody can do any of these if they train. I don’t recommend it, but anybody could do it if there was a need.
I think that, when you die, you go back to where you came from before you were born. So I don’t think death is a bad thing.
I was obsessed with the idea of fasting and isolation.
I think that when Evel Knievel crashed over the fountain at Caesar’s, it kind of gave you a credibility and then anticipation for everything he did.
I hope people remember me as a guy who brought magic to the people. You know, pushed the boundaries of wonder.
As a kid, I always was obsessed with Houdini.
People haven’t even begun to tap into the potential of what the mind is possible of doing. We only use a certain percentage of our brains.
I thought instead of burying myself under dirt, I’d bury myself under water so everybody could see that you’re there.
I don’t think you can say something is or isn’t magic. That’s what was cool about Houdini, because he was a magician who had a magic show, but he was also an escape artist, and they kind of, over time, blended together. They both kind of enhance each other, I think.
