Paul LePaul quotes

“The illusion of magic is an idealistic fantasy; it exists only in the imagination of the spectator.”
-- Paul LePaul

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“The only way to improve a trick is to find a simpler and more direct way of doing it.”
-- Paul LePaul

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“If people like you, they will like your magic. If you are an artist at what you do, they will sing your praises and applaud your artistry.”
-- Paul LePaul

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“There is no substitute for skill. It is the priceless possession of every great artist in every field of endeavor. It is instinctly felt by an audience and is reflected in the superiority of his work”
-- Paul LePaul

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“If a family is an expression of continuity through biology, a city is an expression of continuity through will amd imagination? through mental choices making artifice, not through physical reproduction.”

“A disaster where marble has been substituted for imagination.”

“Much that we read of Russia is imagination and desire only.”

“Can art be completely invented? It's a matter of shaping reality with the help of imagination.”

“Creativity is the power to reject the past, to change the status quo, and to seek new potential. Simply put, aside from using one's imagination - perhaps more importantly - creativity is the power to act.”

Source : "Ai Weiwei: the dissident artist" by Hari Kunzru, www.theguardian.com. May 27, 2011.

“Frauds master our minds; magicians, like poets and lovers, engage them in a permanent maze of possibilities.”

Source : "The real work" by Adam Gopnik, www.newyorker.com. March 17, 2008.

“If you would bring the magic out of your mind - the magic which will transform everything - you must believe.”

“The best magic always results from ecstasies of logic.”

“Fantasy is so much hotter than reality most of the time”

Source : Adam Lambert ‏@adamlambert, twitter.com. August 1, 2010.

“Now that I had actually made love, more astonishingly now that I had been made love to, the fantasies were subtly undermined.”

Source : Alan Hollinghurst (1994). “The folding star”, Pantheon