Quotes About Illusion

I don't want the viewer to be able to peel away the layers of my painting like the layers of an onion and find that all the blues are on the same level.

You can manipulate the viewer in film. With theater, what you see is what you get.

As an actor, the whole process of shooting for movie or television is so artificial though the final product may be extremely realistic to the viewer.

You can't fool television viewers with dancing girls and flashing lights.

But, in real life, I'm not a sex symbol. I'm popular with female viewers, but television is fantasy land. People watching don't see the real person; they see a romanticised image.

Magic's about understanding - and then manipulating - how viewers digest the sensory information.

'The Raikar Case' will offer the viewers with a kind of such a real experience as it truly delivers more than what meets the eye.

Much of reality TV has been like the worst nightmares of Theodor Adorno and Jean Baudrillard come true, its seductive allure turning us into gossips in the global village.

Villains never know they are villains in a picture so I play this like I'm the nicest guy in the world.

Lots of people think the violence in the films I make is overwhelming, but they think they're seeing something that they aren't seeing.

To show men that crimes can be pardoned, and that punishment is not their inevitable consequence, encourages the illusion of impunity and induces the belief that, since there are pardons, those sentences which are not pardoned are violent acts of force rather than the products of justice.

Game-playing is more fun when it's virtual because you're more successful. ... in reality, only one person gets to be LeBron.

When you put on the headset, you want to be tricked; you want your mind to believe you are actually teleported to this new virtual place.

Photography is a kind of virtual reality, and it helps if you can create the illusion of being in an interesting world.

People may flatter themselves just as much by thinking that their faults are always present to other people's minds, as if they believe that the world is always contemplating their individual charms and virtues.

The land of literature is a fairy land to those who view it at a distance, but, like all other landscapes, the charm fades on a nearer approach, and the thorns and briars become visible.

My painting is visible images which conceal nothing... they evoke mystery and indeed when one sees one of my pictures, one asks oneself this simple question 'What does that mean'? It does not mean anything, because mystery means nothing either, it is unknowable.

We too, through lack of knowledge and of sufficiently mature reflection, mistook the visible outward appearance of the phenomenon for the phenomenon itself.

The trick to being a novelist is to act like an iceberg. Make it seem as if you're displaying only one-tenth of what you know, and the other nine-tenths isn't visible and never mind if that part is pure styrofoam!

How are things visible? Can you see an egg against a white background? Not by drawing a line around it can you make it evident.

If you met Faith Hill in person, you would think she's absolutely beautiful. And when you take her picture, you will see every flaw that you never saw in person. Those flaws not only become visible but magnified.

Color is just in a small area of our vision, and the rest we add with the mind.

Nothing is so easy to fake as the inner vision.

I think a lot of people have a vision of L.A. in which TV executives and movie directors plan their latest productions by the swimming pool.