Quotes About Illusion

We have art so that we shall not die of reality.

The fog of illusion, the fog of confusion is hanging all over the world.

However fake the subject, once photographed, it's as good as real.

Art is the most beautiful deception of all!

Obviously a drawing of a person is not a real person, but a drawing of a line is a real line.

Surrealism is the magical surprise of finding a lion in a wardrobe, where you were 'sure' of finding shirts.

Coquetry is the art of successful deception.

The art of acting is not to act. Once you show them more, what you show them, in fact is bad acting.

Art's only concern with the real is to abolish it, and to substitute for it a new reality

Art is not a reflection of reality, it is the reality of a reflection.

Besides prostitution, magic is one of the oldest art forms that exist.

Art is a lie that makes us realize truth.

Art at its greatest is fantastically deceitful and complex.

Art exists because reality is neither real nor significant.

Drawing is deception.

Did you ever get the feeling that the story's too damn real?

The film is the first art form capable of demonstrating how matter plays tricks on man.

This is what is known as perspective, and it is a swindle.

I am against limitations like perspective. Perspective is illusion, it's the opposite of presence, and art is presence.

Lying, the telling of beautiful untrue things, is the proper aim of Art.

Art is magic delivered from the lie of being truth.

Sometimes my art is just an illusion - or is it?

From the point of view of art, there are no concrete or abstract forms, but only forms which are more or less convincing lies.

All my works are games, serious game.