Quotes About Illusion

The brain highlights what it imagines as patterns; it disregards contradictory information. Human nature yearns to see order and hierarchy in the world. It will invent it where it cannot find it.

The media doesn't always reflect reality.

You go on Instagram, and it's just not a real reflection of what people do and how much pain people are in every day.

The overall concept of 'Only You' is a reflection on the illusion of love, how we confront, understand and manifest our self identities within relationships.

Nobody of us has ever seen ourselves! We see a reflection in the mirror.

'2001' used a lot of what's called 'front projection.' You project an image onto this giant reflective screen, and the image bounces back and comes back to the lens and seems to be in the background behind the actors. The whole 'dawn of man' sequence in '2001' was projected eight-by-ten photographs of the African savannah.

I've used mirrors in a lot of movies. I think the mirror is an extraordinary thing, also the reflective, a reflection in water, etc.

Castles in the air - they are so easy to take refuge in. And so easy to build too.

I have heard show business characterized as a refuge for childlike persons in flight from all things harsh and real.

The plain man is familiar with blindness and deafness, and knows from his everyday experience that the look of things is influenced by his senses; but it never occurs to him to regard the whole world as the creation of his senses.

I can imagine that the Iraqis undertake the destruction out of fear. If they had denied it, if they had said no, that certainly would have played into the hands of those that would like to take armed action immediately. I have no illusions in that regard.

I thought we were making a nice little movie. That's how it was regarded by everyone else, too.

As a clinician, I would never want to be coercive in relation to a patient, nor do I harbor the illusion that as a physician I am capable of forcing someone to change their behavior, no matter how detrimental to their health.

Practically all the relationships I know are based on a foundation of lies and mutually accepted delusion.

I was in love with the idea of love, so I created elaborate fictions for my relationships - fictions that allowed me to believe that what any given paramour and I shared looked a lot like love.

I thought TV fame was hip... well, that was because I hadn't experienced rock star fame yet.

I do hip-hop music, and I've gotten famous off of hip-hop music, and I know that I'm successful, and I've created my own definition of success, what success means to me. So the hip-hop world is all just really fake to me.

I really thought that Billy Joel had two hits. I thought it was 'Uptown Girl' and 'Piano Man,' and that was basically it.

I had a little glimpse of what fame holds, and I decided it held a load of nothing.

So all the rest is O.K., but fame is a hollow ground, isn't it? It's an empty kind of thing.

If only those who dream about Hollywood knew how difficult it all is.

A lot of people got lost in Hollywood while trying to become a star. They lost themselves.

It's really disgusting what Hollywood can do to a guy.

Hollywood is a sewer with service from the Ritz Carlton.