Quotes About Illusion

They turned and found themselves facing a bullet head on an ICBM body lumpily stuffed into a black shirt and a brown suit. It was as though King Kong were making a break for it, hoping to smuggle himself back to his island disguised as a human being.

Life is like an onion: you peel off layer after layer and then you find there is nothing in it.

Look at this life - all mystery and magic.

We live in a fantasy world, a world of illusion. The great task in life is to find reality.

Animation isn't the illusion of life; it is life

If anybody wanted to photograph my life, they'd get bored in a day.

Every video I'm in, every magazine cover, they stretch you; they make you perfect. It's not real life.

Perhaps it is better to wake up after all, even to suffer, rather than to remain a dupe to illusions all one's life.

Reality is fabricated out of desire.

It's all make believe, isn't it?

Basically what we have here is a dreamer. Somebody out of touch with reality. When she jumped, she probably thought she'd fly

Photoshop makes things look beautiful just as you have special effects in movies. It's just a part of life.

The saddest moment in a child's life is not when he learns that Santa Claus isn't real, it's when he learns that Vince Russo is.

Life is only as meaningful as you fool yourself into thinking it is.

The photograph is completely abstracted from life, yet it looks like life. That is what has always excited me about photography.

And if real life was like the movies, I should have lived happily ever after.

When a small child, I thought that success spelled happiness. I was wrong, happiness is like a butterfly which appears and delights us for one brief moment, but soon flits away.

Life is populated with scarecrows—all those people and things that seem so scary and trouble our sleep. Isn't it nice to know that most of them turn out to be made of nothing but straw?

Enjoy the journey, because the destination is a mirage.

My images don't come close to real life. The world is remarkable, astounding and surprising that one does not need to exaggerate. What actually exists is simply insane.

Funny, isn't it, how your whole life goes by while you think you're only planning the way you're going to live it?

The most solid pleasure in this life is the empty pleasure of illusion.

Life is a spell so exquisite that everything conspires to break it.

Most people who make movies are in real life a bitter disappointment. I, on the other hand, am so much better in real life.