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David Blaine

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.

— David Blaine men

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.

— David Blaine you

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

— David Blaine truth

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

— David Blaine art

I was obsessed with the idea of fasting and isolation.

— David Blaine wit

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.

— David Blaine hope

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.

— David Blaine love

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.

— David Blaine science

My only fear is the unknown.

— David Blaine fear

Basically, I was a kid growing up with a single mother in Brooklyn.

— David Blaine sin

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

— David Blaine life

I consider myself a showman, and I love magic, and I love art, and I love performance, and they're all separate.

— David Blaine love

I hope people remember me as a guy who brought magic to the people. You know, pushed the boundaries of wonder.

— David Blaine hope

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.

— David Blaine men

I think everything I do is normal, not paranormal but normal. It's using the power of the mind to achieve whatever we can endure.

— David Blaine power

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.

— David Blaine you

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

— David Blaine self

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.

— David Blaine art

We are all capable of infinitely more than we believe.

— David Blaine believe

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.

— David Blaine time

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.

— David Blaine people

I remember finding a Houdini book at the library and seeing an image of him chained on the side of a building. He looked so intense and scary, and I couldn't get that image out of my head. That started building up my love of magic.

— David Blaine love

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.

— David Blaine mother

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.

— David Blaine pain

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.

— David Blaine science

Whether youre 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.

— David Blaine men

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