Illusion Quotes

“Photography, as we all know, is not real at all. It is an illusion of reality with which we create our own private world.”

“Every perception of color is an illusion... we do not see colors as they really are. In our perception they alter one another.”

“That happiness is to be found in success is the great illusion of American life.”

“The imagination is the faculty of illusion.”

“What is a movie star? It is an illusion. It was a wonderful life, but it was not a real life. I know that, and I have always been aware of that.”

“Truth and illusion, George; you don't know the difference.”

“Religion is an illusion and it derives its strength from the fact that it falls in with our instinctual desires.”

“It's a true image, born of a false spectacle.”

“An opera is a collection of beautiful lies.”

“Reality is merely an illusion, albeit a very persistent one.”

“For me, cinema is a magic trick.”

“Thinking of peace as a state of Nothing-happening is an illusion.”

“They're not even within 100 miles. They are not in any place. They hold no place in Iraq. This is an illusion ... they are trying to sell to the others.”

“None are more hopelessly enslaved than those who falsely believe they are free.”

“A person who thinks all the time has nothing to think about except thoughts. So he loses touch with reality, and lives in a world of illusion.”

“The choreographer and the dancer must remember that they reach the audience through the eye. It's the illusion created which convinces the audience, much as it is with the work of a magician.”

“Disneyland is presented as imaginary in order to make us believe that the rest is real.”

“In this fool's paradise, he drank delight.”

“What the eyes see and the ears hear, the mind believes.”

“Safety is a dangerous and incalculable illusion.”