Quotes About Illusion

Things are entirely what they appear to be and BEHIND THEM... there is nothing.

From these few observations we can already conclude that the real is never beautiful. Beauty is a value applicable only to the imaginary and which means the negation of the world in its essential structure.

I glance around the room. What a comedy! All these people sitting there, looking serious, eating. No, they aren't eating: they are recuperating in order to successfully finish their tasks. Each one of them has his little personal difficulty which keeps him from noticing that he exists; there isn't one of them who doesn't believe himself indispensable to something or someone.

My memories are like coins in the devil's purse: when you open it you find only dead leaves.

Les grandes personnes, établies dans mon âme, montraient du doigt mon étoile; je ne la voyais pas mais je voyais le doigt, je croyais en elles qui prétendaient croire en moi.

Le monde est était une comédie sans acteurs.

Whenever a great painter... does a work which appears to be false and lying, that falsity is very true.

Blocking and countering like they do in the films doesn't work, so don't bother trying.

What is called a sincere work is one that is endowed with enough strength to give reality to an illusion.

I work with few colors, what creates the illusion of quantity is that they fell in the right place.

I don't work under the illusion that I'm the next whatever. Every time a record comes out, if it gets a good review, I'm like, "Well, one more year, guys. We bought ourselves another year".

What appear to us to be causal explanations are in fact just stories—descriptions of what happened that tell us little, if anything, about the mechanisms at work.

People in the land of LaLa look like expensive wax fruit. And they work hard to achieve that look.

I find auditioning to be a very illusive process, where actors come in with this really big result with no process, so it's a lie already at work.

I can kid people, including myself, into believing that something on the page will work. But when you film it, you just think, "Oh ...".

Celebrities do look different in real life from our images of them - there is a big gap. And that is what my work is about: the gap between the image and the celebrity themselves.

Usually, about two years of work go into each illusion, whether it's big or small. Two years of work on each five-minute piece.

No one could have less faith in the absolute and definitive importance of the work created by man, because I believe that this world is nothing but a dream.

Every complex problem has a simple solution that doesn't work.

When you are far away from reality, your fantasy won't work.

American families don't work. There is an illusion that they do.

It was sometimes 60 degrees [Celsius], but it's very strange, cinema makes you forget reality most of the time. You are more concerned about your inner feelings, or your work.

It was hysterical going to work. I would just walk in and think, 'What in hell? Am I here? What's going on? I'm going to wake up in a minute. I'm in a dream.'

Self-delusion is rarely a good strategy for effective management.