Quotes About Illusion

One of the best sleight-of-hand guys I know is a plumber.

The poet's expression of joy conceals his despair at not having found the reality of joy.

I used to write a lot of songs. I was an English major in college. I was a deluded poet for a year. Totally deluded.

Inspiration is a farce that poets have invented to give themselves importance.

The point of painting is not really deception or imitation.

Human beings, from their own point of view, are very different than what people see.

The cliched rock life never seemed that cool to me.

You never know what's really happening behind closed doors. Everything isn't always what it seems.

I really didn't want to expand the negative vision of clowns because clowns are not intrinsically scary.

When you're a celebrity, people think they know you, but they don't have a clue.

There's an art to making something look good when, on a hanger, it's just a black coat.

People used to think we just faked all that stuff... it was all written, rehearsed. The fact that it looks as cobbled together as it does is just that we weren't very good.

I'm obviously aware that most people don't agree with me, that people like to escape into a coherent world that is apart from their own.

I don't think you get a lot of comedians who are homeopaths. Comedy is essentially about not being hoodwinked.

All simulators are going to be different compared to reality, that's how I see it.

You don't know reality until someone makes a fiction of it. Reality needs the completion of fiction.

Life has many of its own complexities, people don't want to see that on screen too.

For the grifter, ripping people off is seldom the point. The grifter is an artiste who invests in the long con.

You can sit in a room and create anything you want on a laptop. That's why the real con men are gone.

The con movie is a little bit different where maybe we tell you what we're going to do but it never goes down the way you expect because there's so much double-crossing and cheats and lies going on along the whole way.

Let's face it - Donald Trump is a very, very good con man.

The name 'con artist' really does capture it. They're artists, and I have admiration for all artists.

Age and numbers are a concept made up by man.

The stuff that is done on Broadway is hardly theatre. It is part magic show, part rock concert, and part conjuring things.