Quotes About Illusion

A picture is a thing which requires as much knavery, as much malice, and as much vice as the perpetration of a crime. Make it untrue and add an accent of truth.

The truth, as the light, makes blind.

When photography was invented, it was thought to be an equivalent to truth. It was truth with a capital T.

Alcohol may also persuade us that we have found the truth about life, a comforting experience rarely available in the sober hour.

It is no wonder if Art frequently prefers Illusion to Truth: for Illusion is her servant, but Truth her mistress.

It isn't that the lies are too beautiful to resist. It's that the truth is too hideous to face.

Om (AUM) is the truth of all truths, the light of all lights and the destroyer of all illusions.

Maybe we all just want to feel special, even for a little while, to be fooled for a bit into feeling something besides the truth of our own ordinariness.

Why waste time trying to discover the truth, when you can so easily create it?

By the flaws in the picture the truth will emerge.

It is the way with half the truth amidst which we live, that it only haunts us and makes dull pulsations that are never born into sound.

All your life you live so close to truth, it becomes a permanent blur in the corner of your eye, and when something nudges it into outline it is like being ambushed by a grotesque.

Images split the truth in fractions.

Anything that is said is not the truth. It is a statement of truth, and no statement is the truth.

Some part of me knew from the first that what I wanted was not reality but myth.

Within every elaborate lie, a kernel of truth.

Better the comfort of a lie than the absurdity of the truth.

Sight is one of the most easily deceived senses. I could make a coin disappear and your eyes would believe it gone, even if it were merely up my sleeve.

What was the use of trying to expound a truth, if the majority preferred a lie?

I've seen the truth, and it makes no sense.

The truths that seem most truthful, if you look at them from all sides, if you look at them close up, turn out to be either half truths or lies.

It seems that the truth is needed today is always a lie by tomorrow.

We've become so glorified in the movie-star system that it's become this artificial royalty. The truth is that we're circus clowns.

With the first drink comes the truth, with the second drink comes wishful thinking, and with the third drink come the lies.