Misunderstood "Art"

Magic as an "art" is very misunderstood.   Why?

Magic (or more precise, the art of deception) is one in which the measure of skill is equivalent to how invisible his talent is to all others.

Huh?

A skill of a concert pianist can be recognized by his playing ability that we can hear and see, and ultimately, measure against other virtuosos.  The same can be said for the theater "arts",  as well as those in dance, etc.
Our senses are excited by sight & sound at the skill poured forth by such talent.

On the other hand, the magician skills go unnoticed.  And even though miracles occur, oftentimes this perceived ability is attributed to "trick" or "fake" means.  Most times, this is just not true.  I pride myself as many others in this field of performing with little, if any, fake or trick apparatus.  There is a group of us (magicians, that is) that try to perform entirely using ungimmicked ordinary objects whenever possible.  It's called performing "clean"....meaning there is nothing to hide or that cannot be examined afterwards.

It is extremely frustrating.  A few months ago, I performed an effect with a deck of cards in which the outcome is the appearance of all the backs of the cards changing color, i.e. a blue deck becomes a red deck.
  This can be accomplished by sleight-of-hand as long as one card is of a different color.  It sounds improbable, but true.  In this case, right before the eyes of my willing (perhaps unwilling) spectator, I openly showed a blue deck and with a few moves showed the deck now completely red.  I fanned out the "newly colored" deck and set them on the table for examination.  He looked at them quizingly, then remarked:
           "My brother used to have a deck like that."
            "Exam them. You will find nothing unusual about the cards",  I remarked.
            "I don't have to.  They're fake"
And so the story ends.
Oh, well.