Quotes About Illusion

like a castle and from the other, it seemed to be a villa. The

Most people when you get up close are not more in focus, but less.

I am unable to lead a life based on an illusion.

Despite the illusion of giving understanding, what seeing through photographs really invites is an acquisitive relation to the world that nourishes aesthetic awareness and promotes emotional detachment.

Camp sees everything in quotation marks. It's not a lamp, but a 'lamp'; not a woman, but a 'woman'.

Image of an image of an image... But to record all the dips and upswings, in a sense falsifies them, and I start deluding myself and thinking all this is, or might be, real. Enough to play the game, or try to play it. A mistake to tally up the score.

Una fotografía es a la vez una pseudopresencia y un signo de ausencia.

If there can be a better way for the real world to include the one of images, it will require an ecology not only of real things but of images as well.

Often something looks, or is felt to look, better in a photograph. Indeed, it is one of the functions of photography to improve the normal appearance of things. (Hence, one is always disappointed by a photograph that is not flattering.)

To look at something which is "empty" is still to be looking, still to be seeing something—if only the ghosts of one's own expectations.

the reality has come to seem more and more what we are shown by camera

Someone is always at the door, no one is ever there.

Poor fool, ruining his life for a piece of cloth smeared with mineral paste, for a fake, I had to tell myself, a mere curiosity.

There is more real wealth in a pound of honey, or a load of manure for that matter, than all the currency in the world. We often destroy the world's real wealth to create an illusion of wealth, confusing symbol and substance." —William Longgood, The Queen Must Die

What I mistook for love was simply a powerful form of wishful thinking

Perhaps Jamie hadn't meant to teach her to bear up under unbearable pain, but he had shown her that appearances were everything, and illusion was a powerful tool.

We often destroy the world's real wealth to create an illusion of wealth, confusing symbol and substance.

I know magicians and I know magic and I say this: all magicians lie and this one more than most.

To a magician there is very little difference between a mirror and a door.

Where have they gone? Wherever magicians used to go. Behind the sky. On the other side of the rain.

Like many spells with unusual names, the Unrobed Ladies was a great deal less exciting than it sounded.

perhaps mortals are not formed for fairy bliss?

There was no one there. Which is to say there was someone there. Miss Wintertowne lay upon the bed, but it would have puzzled philosophy to say now whether she were someone or no one at all.

Immediately he became convinced that all the cupboards in the house were full of pineapples.