Quotes About Illusion

Real talent is mixing realism with bluff. Every great artist I really respect has a certain amount of bluff; sooner or later you have to be a conjurer, and conjure images.

There's a higher place that I have no illusions about reaching. There's a sophistication and aesthetic about composers who only write only for the music's sake.

I deal out of a reality that isn't real. I'm sorry. I don't know what that means. I don't really know what I do.

If I turn on the television, am I to believe that that is America? I'm sorry, I don't believe that's America.

I'm sorry - I know America is supposed to be the land of the dreams and hopes, but it's like, when was that actually a real thing? I think from the very beginning it was all a lie, and it still kind of is. Stop trying to sell the picket fence, because there's another backyard here that you haven't looked at.

You know, there are many alter egos and Gorillaz is a collective of alter egos, really. I think anyone who gets involved in it has to sort of accept that nothing is really as it seems.

I was drawing a mandolin, and I made the sound hole very small, which made the mandolin look gigantic. I saw that making the details small made the form monumental. So in my figures, the eyes, the mouth are all small, and the exterior form is huge.

People say I play real loud. I don't, actually. I'm recorded loud and a lot of that is because we have good engineers. Mick knows what a good drum sound is as well, so that's part of the illusion really. I can't play loud.

By that I mean, I think that it is true that politics and political heroes have to satisfy our need to be greater than mortal in some way, and that's led them into creating illusions, sound bites, focus groups that tell you what to do.

Liberty and equality are captivating sounds, but they often captivate to destroy.

The media. It sounds like a convention of spiritualists.

The source of all the material comes from nothingness, illusion is working more on things you can prove. That's the principle, the essence of life, it is actually an illusion, not immaterial. That's worth pursuing. So illusion is not nothing. In a way, that is the truth.

We were shooting a scene of the Phoenix Ashram in South Africa, but the set was in India. All the donkeys in the vicinity were painted black and white to look like zebras in case one of them strayed into the scene so that it would look like South Africa.

Southern California, where the American Dream came too true.

At the end of the day, the sovereignty of maleness is an illusion. In essence and in origin, we are all entirely female.

Size is not a reality, but a construct of the mind; and space a construct to contain constructs.

Aside from keeping the rain out and producing some usable space, architecture is nothing but a special-effects machine that delights and disturbs the senses.

All things which have a directing force here in the physical world cease to exist when one arrives in the imaginative world. If, on the physical plane, you imagine yourself to have done something you actually have not done, you will soon be persuaded by the facts of the physical world that this is not so. This is not the case in astral space.

Getting wet in the rain will not make you happy always.

Oh Mom, it turns out my knight in shining armor was just some liar in tinfoil.

Dear billion dollar eyes they are a paupers dream

You were my dream and I was just your fantasy.

In my dream I drank fully of water, but when I woke, I was thirsty." Ned Low

Everything made sense in a book...Too bad her life wasn't fiction.