Quotes About Illusionism

We don't want obvious exploitation. We want smoke-and-mirrors exploitation.

Adopting the multiverse hypothesis to explain our ordered observations would thus result once more in a strange sort of illusionism.

I like nature but not its substitutes. Naturalist art, illusionism, is a substitute for nature. I remember that in arguing with Mondrian (in Paris 1920s, ed.), he opposed art to nature saying that art is artificial and nature is natural. I do not share this opinion. I do not think that nature is in natural opposition to art. Arts origins are natural.

I can saw a woman in two - but you won't want to look in the box when I'm through.

Modernism had two great wishes. It wanted its audience to be led toward a recognition of the social reality of the sign (away from the comforts of narrative and illusionism, was the claim); but equally it dreamed of turning the sign back to a bedrock of World/Nature/Sensation/Subjectivity which the to and fro of capitalism had all but destroyed.