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.

- Marco Tempest

About three years ago, I started an exercise in openness and inclusiveness to create new digital tools for magic - tools that could eventually be sha…

- Marco Tempest

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

- Marco Tempest

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

- Marco Tempest

The tricks of magic follow the archetypes of narrative fiction — there are tales of creation and loss, death and resurrection, and obstacles that mus…

- Marco Tempest

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 …

- Marco Tempest

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

- Marco Tempest

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

- Marco Tempest

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

- Marco Tempest