Quotes About Illusion

You can put an extra coat of paint on a jalopy, but it's still a jalopy.

In painting you must give the idea of the true by means of the false.

Painting contains a divine force which... makes the dead seem almost alive.

No ghost was every seen by two pair of eyes.

I have no illusions about our elected politicians. Pakistani democracy is anything but perfect.

It's inconceivable to some people that that wouldn't be the sexiest thing to do in the whole world: to be a movie star, and make money, and be pampered, and whatever.

I harbor no illusion that government and elected office is a panacea for all of society's ills.

The paradox of reality is that no image is as compelling as the one which exists only in the mind's eye.

Paris can be like the land of the Lotus-Eaters. You can't leave.

But if you go from Moscow to Budapest you think you are in Paris.

What we think about Paris is a part of how we feel about it. Our idea of Paris is our idea and we don't know that that's not necessarily the way it really is. It feels so real.

Looking at yourself through the media is like looking at one of those rippled mirrors in an amusement park.

When you go to the park, there is no horizon - just Disneyland.

I think e-mail petitions are an illusion. It gives people the illusion that they're participating in some meaningful political action.

When you live closely with people, you don't see who they really are. In particular, with nannies, they only exist in your home, and when they leave, they don't really exist anymore for you.

I did magic at children's parties when I was a kid.

All that we don't know is astonishing. Even more astonishing is what passes for knowing.

And although cars and motorcycles zipped around, all he saw was the girl coming toward him like a scene in a movie.

Today's so-called cloud isn't really a cloud at all. It's a bunch of corporate dirigibles painted to look like clouds. You can tell they're fake because they all have logos on them. The real cloud wouldn't have a logo. Once

Reality is made up of circles but we see straight lines.

vision is an idle dream at best and a cynical delusion at worst - but not an achievable end

Time was wiggy in so much dark.

Donald Crowhurst had an extraordinary talent for making people believe him. His power lay in the fact that he had completely convinced himself.

What is a lie? It is to say what is real is not real. It is to deny the existence of what exists.