Quotes About Illusion

MAGIC, n. An art of converting superstition into coin. There are other arts serving the same high purpose, but the discreet lexicographer does not name them.

Everybody's wearing a disguise, to hide what they've got left behind their eyes.

Fortune or fame, you must pick one or the other, though neither of them are to be what they claim.

Illusion I will be, for I've never been a sinner.

Her head is full of bubbles, her nose is petite, she looks like she never gets nothing to eat.

Art may varnish and gild, but it can do no more.

Thou art a dreaming thing, A fever of thyself.

I used to believe in the pretty pictures that were all around me, but now I know for sure that I was stupid.

People believe that photographs are true and therefore cannot be art.

The media sells it and you live the role.

Celluloid heroes never feel any pain.

I'm only lookin' for a fantasy, an interlude from reality.

See the man on the TV with a phony smile. Bring you up, bring you down, he can turn your head around.

So many people seem to imagine that because the actual tools of writing are easily accessible, it is less difficult than the other arts. This is entirely an illusion.

Two boys arrived yesterday with a pebble they said was the head of a dog until I pointed out that it was really a typewriter.

We all know that Art is not truth. Art is a lie that makes us realize the truth, at least the truth that is given to us to understand.

Everything we see hides another thing, we always want to see what is hidden by what we see, but it is impossible. Humans hide their secrets too well....

Always suffer delusions of grandeur with your art. What you are unable to face will never hurt you

The artist must manage to make posterity believe that he never existed.

A picture is a secret about a secret, the more it tells you the less you know.

Magic is the stunning art of surprising your audience, so that nothing else surprises them.

If the past is no longer presentis it fiction?

Why should a real chair be better than an imaginary elephant?

The map is more interesting than the territory.