Top 19 Quotes & Sayings by Marco Tempest

Explore popular quotes and sayings by a Swiss entertainer Marco Tempest.

Last updated on November 4, 2024.

Marco Tempest is a Swiss magician based in New York City. He is known for his multimedia magic and use of interactive technology and computer graphics in his illusions and presentations. He stars in the eight-part television series The Virtual Magician which has been broadcast in over 50 countries.

Swiss - Entertainer | Born: December 3, 1964

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The tricks of magic follow the archetypes of narrative fiction - there are tales of creation and loss, death and resurrection, and obstacles that must be overcome.

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I combine magic and science to create illusions. I work with new media and interactive technologies, things like artificial intelligence or computer vision, and integrate them in my magic.

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Magic is, in its core, introverted and closed; it's the most closed community ever, and I want to change all that and make it more open. If we want things to change, we have to be more open-minded.

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One of the key qualities of all stories is that they are made to be shared.

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Combining magic with technology is a good way to influence the trajectory of where technology is going and show people what technology could be in our lives and what it shouldn't be.

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I did magic all my life from the time I was 12, and I like to tap into the magic from history.

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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.

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Art is a deception that creates real emotions - a lie that creates a truth. And when you give yourself over to that deception, it becomes magic.

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We willingly enter fictional worlds where we cheer our heroes and cry for friends we never had.

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I don't try to show off technology in my work. The technology is a means to tell stories, so I think conversations about my work can be had by very large audiences.

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Magicians will always tell you the trick is the most important thing, but I'm more interested in telling a story.

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My products and magic are free, but on the commercial side of what I do, the big tech companies are impressed with somebody like me who can emotionalize a piece of technology.

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Magicians will always tell you the trick is the most important thing, but Im more interested in telling a story.

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The tools of social networking: These are the digital campfires around which the audience gathers to hear our story.

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The tricks of magic follow the archetypes of narrative fiction — there are tales of creation and loss, death and resurrection, and obstacles that must be overcome.

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The Chinese general Sun Tzu said that all war was based on deception. Oscar Wilde said the same thing of romance.

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Everything I did, I did for mankind.

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Magic [makes] possible today what science will make a reality tomorrow.

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About three years ago, I started an exercise in openness and inclusiveness to create new digital tools for magic - tools that could eventually be shared with other artists to start them off further on in the process and to get them into the poetry faster.

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Top 19 Quotes & Sayings by Marco Tempest

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