Quotes About Illusion

Events, once happened, lose reality, alter with a glance, a storm, a night. In time, the past never happened. But who could know? Who could know that the past is not as solid as this instant…

Happiness is the most insidious prison of all.

It was the Cheshire Cat who had said to Alice, "I'm not crazy. My reality is just different than yours.

Reality is only a Rorschach ink-blot, you know.

But my dear man, reality is only a Rorschach ink-blot, you know.

I have realized that the past and future are real illusions, that they exist in the present, which is what there is and all there is.

That's the problem: Most people don't know where money comes from, nor how it's created." Which, he believes, is the reason why our economy today resembles a chain letter based on the fiction of an infinite number of recipients, instead of a terrarium—such as Terra, the Earth itself.

The menu is not the meal.

Mundi honor est a sliper thinge and an elvich. Worldly fame is a treacherous and elvish thing.

Her book was filled with centaurs because she had not fully grasped the complexity of actual people, actual horses.

All data is stale. The photons reaching your eyes are stale. They tell you that you are looking at something real, but you have no information that the objects before you still exist. They may have vanished into oblivion the instant those photons took wing.

Still, it was vision, or at least vision's idiot cousin.

There are some great actors I don't want to meet because I don't want to know how they did it. I don't want to know anything about their personal life, and the illusion, or whatever it is, the shape-shiftery magic stuff that they do, which is my joy.

For me, the only thing I had to look forward to was the ring because my personal life wasn't doing that great, so my fake life was what I was holding onto.

I know it was all a bit of a sham. But I know that Mickey Dolenz sang. And Davy Jones sang. And Mike Nesmith sang. And Peter Tork did something.

All phenomena are empty.

Simultaneous contrast is not just a curious optical phenomenon - it is the very heart of painting.

When fans of mine meet me, I can see the disappointment in their eyes. Every artist knows of this phenomenon.

I don't believe there's anything in life you can't go back and fix. The ancient Vedas - the oldest Hindu philosophy - and modern science agree that time is an illusion. If that's true, there's no such thing as a past or a future - it's all one huge now. So what you fix now affects the past and the future.

A photograph is always invisible, it is not it that we see.

To photograph reality is to photograph nothing.

Ironically, my paintings don't photograph well.

If you think you're going to create an unposed photograph, think again. There is no such thing.

People didn't object to me taking their photo. It was something everybody thought was their due: to be King for a Day, win the lottery and be photographed.