Quotes By David Blaine

Magic's an art where you use slight of hand or illusion to create wonder. And I was just intrigued with that idea.

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.

We are all capable of infinitely more than we believe.

My only fear is the unknown.

In truth, the only restrictions on our capacity to astonish ourselves and each other are imposed by our own minds.

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 have not had time to reflect on my own truths in many years.

I was obsessed with the idea of fasting and isolation.

I thought instead of burying myself under dirt, I'd bury myself under water so everybody could see that you're there.

I remember my mother had this deck of cards that her mother had given her and that she passed on to me. It was a gypsy tarot deck that I used to carry everywhere.

I just believe that the feeling of wonder is amazing. I am pushing myself as far as I can humanly push myself... I can only hope for the best and expect the worse.

I'd always wanted to do these types of things - pieces of magic I could put out not as illusions, but really doing it.

As a kid, I always was obsessed with Houdini.

I think great whites are the most beautiful and perfect creatures I've ever seen.

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 believe that fear of life brings a greater fear of death.

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.

My mother encouraged it so much. She was so supportive. Even if as a kid, I would do the dumbest trick, which now that I look back on some things, she would love it, she would say that's amazing, or if I'd make the ugliest drawing, she would hang it up. She was amazing.

I do a lot of research on what people have done in the past.