Top 37 Quotes by David Blaine

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

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

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

I've always liked artists like Chris Burden, who would take performances, put them in galleries, and then do things that were on the edge.

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.

I'd like to bring magic back to the place it used to be 100 years ago.

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

I was obsessed with the idea of fasting and isolation.

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

I think that, when you die, you go back to where you came from before you were born. So I don't think death is a bad thing.