Magicians have done controlled testing in human perception for thousands of years.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
Every time you perform a magic trick, you're engaging in experimental psychology. If the audience asks, 'How the hell did he do that?' then the experiment was successful.
There's always going to be comparisons, and that's unavoidable. There are people out there who feel I hit my peak with Magician and have gone downhill since.
When a magician lets you notice something on your own, his lie becomes impenetrable.
Magicians lose the opportunity to experience a sense of wonder.
Magicians are typically introverted; they don't tend to work with others, but I work with software programmers, composers, designers, so it's a very diverse group and the result is always more interesting than something I could have done by myself.
Until very recently, the artist was a magician who did his magic in public view but kept himself and his effects a matter of mystery.
I always really liked magicians. I'm not even sure why - except that they know things other people don't, and they live in untidy rooms full of strange objects.
David Blaine, I think, was the first TV magician to really turn the camera around and make it about the spectator's experience. That's really what magic is all about.
Like every art form, there are jealousies and angers and competitiveness in magic. But there's camaraderie among magicians, whether you perform it for a living or you're an enthusiast.
For centuries, magicians have intuitively taken advantage of the inner workings of our brains.