Quotes About Illusion

It was a dream world, a kind of Alice in Wonderland, with its kings and queens, princes and princesses, and our millions of loyal subjects. But it wasn't real, and it couldn't last.

Flirtation and coquetry are so nearly allied as to be identical; both are the art of successful and pleasing deception.

A Locanian having plucked all the feathers off from a nightingale and seeing what a little body it had, "surely," quoth he, "thou art all voice and nothing else.

Acting is a strange business; one day it's there, and the next day nowhere to be seen.

Imagination is a powerful deceiver.

Most art is just surface noise.

Art, however innocent, looks like deceiving.

I am an illusionist - that's why I create art.

It is the greatest art of the devil to convince us he does not exist.

The realists do not take the photograph for a 'copy' of reality, but for an emanation of past reality, a magic, not an art.

She was an expert at the art of sudden appearance.

Self-deception is nature; hypocrisy is art.

Magic is a powerful art that can support a weak performer.

All art is a vision penetrating the illusions of reality, and photography is one form of this vision and revelation.

Art is a never-ending dance of illusions.

For me, art is always a kind of theater.

The highest problem of any art is to cause by appearance the illusion of a higher reality.

Art is when things appear rounded.

Art is a Great Goddess of infinite intrigue and illusion, and even a lifetime of worship may not find her fickle soul.

Art is an artifice that you try to make seem natural.

Movie queens diffuse into Cinema haze, while libertines read pornozines in street cafes.

The magician depends for the success of his art upon the credulity of the people. Whatever mystifies, excites curiosity; whatever in turn baffles this curiosity, works the marvelous.

Magic: (n) The art of converting superstition into coin.

picture, n. A representation in two dimensions of something wearisome in three.