Quotes About Illusion

My ideas are not meant to suggest dreams or reality, but a surreal quality.

The idea of my fashion shows is that you can't understand where you are; it's something surreal.

Film sets are constantly amusing because you really are creating something that is so very surreal, and I kind of like that.

I don't know why, but even my nighttime dreams are very, very rooted in reality. They just start to become surreal, little by little. That exact moment when you're about to realize that this might be a dream is my favorite thing.

My world is so surreal.

Hyperrealism can create an atmosphere of surrealism because nobody sees the world in such detail.

The rationalist is not unaware of the animal impulses in man, and of the passions of man in society. The rationalist has long since abandoned the illusion that men, alone or in groups, are reasonable. He bets on the education of humanity, even if he is not sure he will win his wager.

We have the whitest kitchens and the most shining bathrooms in the world. But in the lovely white kitchen the average [person] can't produce a meal fit to eat, and the lovely shining bathroom is mostly a receptacle for deodorants, laxatives, sleeping pills, and the products of that confidence racket called the cosmetic industry. We make the finest packages in the world, Mr Marlowe. The stuff inside is mostly junk.

Thick cunning played on her face, had no fun there and went somewhere else.

You can live a long time in Hollywood and never see the part they use in pictures...

From thirty feet away she looked like a lot of class. From ten feet away she looked like something made up to be seen from thirty feet away.

Lace and ruffles, swords and coaches, elegance and leisure, duels and gallant death. All lies. They used perfume instead of soap, their teeth rotted because they never cleaned them, their fingernails smelled of stale gravy. The nobility of France urinated against the walls in the marble corridors of Versailles, and when you finally got several sets of underclothes off the lovely marquise the first thing you noticed was that she needed a bath.

Hollywood is wonderful. Anyone who doesn't like it is either crazy or sober.

Ata që shpenzojnë paret e tyre për tu eksituar me mënyra të dorës së dytë, janë nevrikë si dukeshat që nuk e gjejnë dot banjën

You're the second guy I've met within hours who seems to think a gat in the hand means a world by the tail.

her face fell apart like a bride's pie crust.

Tiré el diario a un rincón y encendí la TV. Después de la nauseabunda página de sociales, hasta los luchadores que aparecían en la pantalla parecían buenos. Lo cual probablemente era cierto. Sobre todo por la página de sociales.

The Dancers they get the sort of people that disillusion you about what a lot of golfing money can do for the personality.

In Hollywood anything can happen, anything at all.

Wade said hello here and there and people seemed glad to see him. But by that time they would have been glad to see Pittsburgh Phil with his custom-built ice-pick. Life was just one great big vaudeville show.

mat. A case of false teeth hung on the mustard-colored wall like a fuse box in a screen porch.

Bubbles rose in it like false hopes.

They don't have gangsters in Bay City. They're all working in pictures.

She brought the glass over. Bubbles rose in it like false hopes.