Art was as much in the activity as in the results. Works of art were not just the finished product, but the thought, the action, the process that created them.

A magician with decreasing practice sessions will give defective performances.

Artistry exists in everyone. What makes it blossom is a soul’s personal desire to find an outlet for expression.

Every piece of art is a mirror and serves the function of reflectivity to expose to you and reveal to you more of who you are.

Everything is an art, which must be mastered.

No matter how many times audience has already applauded, the sound of their applause will get louder with the better quality of your magic effect.

Flair is what makes the difference between artistry and mere competence. Cmdr. William Riker

Not without deep pain do we admit to ourselves that the artists of all ages have in their highest flights carried to heavenly transfiguration precisely those conceptions that we now recognize as false: they are...

You can survive without artistry, but you cannot live without artistry.

There’s this misconception that artists should create their own mythologies, through how they live. Not true. They should create their own mythologies through their work. In whatever styles, textures and approaches they choose to use.

A bad magician never gets the good props.

A lifetime had to be crafted, just like anything else, she thought, it had to be moulded and beaten and burnished in order to get the most out of it.

I am sure that there is no place in the world where your message would not be enhanced by your making the place (whether tiny or large, a hut or a palace) orderly, artistic and...

Magic is not just for the entertainment, but to inspire people to be creative enough with their lives.

Artistry, perhaps, is at its core being able to control change in interesting ways.

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

One must know a bad performance to know a good one. You can’t be middle-of-the-road about it, just as you can’t be middle-of-the-road about life. I mean, you can’t say about Hitler, I can take...

It is true that all men are created in the image of God, but Christians are supposed to be conscious of that fact, and being conscious of it should recognize the importance of living artistically,...

Divinity is accident of nature, magic is the work of an art.

Brush strokes write poetry harmonized through the cords of an artist’s imagination.Color, contrast, simple compassion splattered across paper leaves tainted with the melody of the silent wind.Gasping, grasping, simply glancing at the souls of those...

A great magician is as divine as God and his stage is as majestic as the paradise.

There was a man with tongue of woodWho essayed to sing,And in truth it was lamentable.But there was one who heardThe clip-clapper of this tongue of woodAnd knew what the manWished to sing,And with that...

Be an artist, in whatever little faculty possible.For the Earth, without ‘Art’ is just ‘Eh

What I say is misdirection, what you see is an illusion and what results is magic.

I can’t overstate how little I knew about myself at 22, or how little I’d thought about what I was doing. When I graduated from college I genuinely believed that the creative life was the...

Magic is logic.

(reporter interviewing Broadway dancer Tommy Tune:) ‘Do you think that greats like Fred Astaire possessed some kind of magic?'(pause)’No. Magic possesses them’.

And I Said To My Soul, Be LoudMadden me back to an afternoonI carry in menot like a woundbut like a will against a woundGive me again enough manto be the childchoosing my own annihilationsTo...

As a general rule, in the world of magic, the most successful magician is the one who has enough patience to keep the secrets of his original magic effects.

Prove to the world that you are alive, let your words breathe life into the nostrils of the universe.

Sometimes for the spectators a great magic effect is worth a life’s experience.

Dance is the divine art that empowers a lady to express her most sacred emotions through the majesty of movements.

If these Mount Everests of the financial world are going to labor and bring forth still more pictures with people being blown to bits with bazookas and automatic assault rifles with no gory detail left...

The secret of good magic is another magic.

To be CREATIVE, you have to be CRAZY, not because you’re CRAZY or want others to become CRAZY, but because you must be CRAZY, before others become CRAZY for you.

You have given intelligence to find one solution, and imagination to find ten.

As Gill says, “every man is called to give love to the work of his hands. Every man is called to be an artist.” The small family farm is one of the last places –...

Through artistry, imagination not only allows one to express their creativity, but also their soul.

If you are really bored with life, just meet a decent magician and have a close up magic show, he will restore inspiration in your life.

Our talents are living things, we give birth to them, nourish them till they grow and become immortal.

A scientist is proud of his intelligence, an artist is proud of his imagination.

If New Orleans is not fully in the mainstream of culture, neither is it fully in the mainstream of time. Lacking a well-defined present, it lives somewhere between its past and its future, as if...

If you follow your passion, it will lead you to fulfillment.

Give royal treatment to your original magic effects, because one of the effects might make you the king of magic.

Anxious, inexperienced writers obey rules. Rebellious, unschooled writers break rules. Artists master the form.

In the world of the dreamer there was solitude: all the exaltations and joys came in the moment of preparation for living. They took place in solitude. But with action came anxiety, and the sense...

For more than three decades, coffee has captured my imagination because it is a beverage about individuals as well as community. A Rwandan farmer. Eighty roast masters at six Starbucks plants on two continents. Thousands...

There is no real magic, only tricks” but a great magician compel people not to trust that belief and make them believe, after all “There does exist a real magic”.

only one who obeys can truly command.” When the artist is immersed in a services,giving himself up over and over again, another paradox occurs:He is being seen by all others as a master.

One is either an artist or one is not. It is not something one becomes. It is something that one is from birth. We do not study to be artists. We study to become more...