Quotes About Illusion

I get photographed at events and it must look like that's my life, but it's not. That's not real life. I wonder do the Kardashians have any real life?

A good photographer can make you look incredible, even when you're not feeling very sexy.

The majority of photographers focus on the obvious. They believe and accept what their eyes tell them, and yet eyes know nothing.

Photographs can reveal something to us, and they can also conceal things.

Photography deals exquisitely with appearances, but nothing is what it appears to be.

You become a model once you go through hair, makeup, and Photoshop.

The world appears rectilinear, but is in fact curvilinear - a literal truth in physics, and a metaphorical one in metaphysics.

Marilyn Monroe wasn't even her real name, Charles Manson isn't his real name, and now, I'm taking that to be my real name. But what's real? You can't find the truth, you just pick the lie you like the best.

We are all captives of the picture in our head - our belief that the world we have experienced is the world that really exists.

Most novices picture themselves as masters - and are content with the picture. This is why there are so few masters.

I make pictures to tell a story, to tell lies, and to amuse.

That's the thing about pictures: they seduce you.

I know I play into that image out there, but I try to say it is a fantasy. I look at my own pictures and wish I could look like that. There are probably five people in this whole entire world who actually look like that.

My pictures are airbrushed.

Pictures are so good at giving people information that they're not looking for.

What ends up in your scrapbook? The pictures where you look like a good guy and a good family man, and the children look adorable - and they're screaming the next minute. I've never seen a family album of screaming people.

If there is any jarring at all in my photographs, it's because we are so used to ingesting pictures of everywhere looking beautiful.

Painting is an illusion, a piece of magic, so what you see is not what you see.

Mr. Fantasy was the only song that was scribbling on a piece of paper.

I think the rock'n'roll myth of living on the edge is a pile of crap.

Hollywood is all made up, anyway. Especially the stories and angles that people want to pin on you.

Pink Floyd and Yes and some of the old art-rock bands, you didn't know what they looked like. You were always looking for pictures, and that added to the mystique. It's much more interesting when you're forced to imagine or guess at these things because usually it's better than reality.

There is this perception that TV is glamorous and it is the pinnacle of your existence - I don't think it is.

I remember kind of doing early acting and thinking, 'God, they don't paint behind the sets.' It's a bit of a shame, really - 'Oh, what's on the other side of this wall? Oh, you can see the plywood.' I was really disappointed. I just thought that these things were real, from watching things as a kid.