Quotations About Illusion

"Illusion is the first of all pleasures." - Oscar Wilde

"If we choose, we can live in a world of comforting illusion." - Noam Chomsky

"What if everything is an illusion and nothing really exists? In that case, I definitely overpaid for my carpet." - Woody Allen

"Everything's fine today. That is our illusion." - Voltaire

"Infinite love is the only truth. Everything else is illusion." - David Icke

"Making films is sort of like pulling off a magic trick. It's sort of like an illusion. It's not real but you want it to appear real, and all kinds of things go into that, from the clothes you're wearing to the make-up, to the light." - Jeff Bridges

"The secret to film is that it's illusion." - George Lucas

"We live in a fantasy world, a world of illusion. The great task in life is to find reality." - Iris Murdoch

"The thing about performance even if it's only an illusion, is that it is a celebration of the fact that we do contain within ourselves infinite possibilities." - Sydney Smith

"One travels to escape from it all, but that is the illusion: It cannot be done, since one travels with one's mind." - Ella Maillart

"Illusion is an anodyne, bred by the gap between wish and reality." - Herman Wouk

""I no longer worry whether a painting is about something or not. I am only concerned with the expectation, from a flat surface, of an illusion." - William Scott

"We're living under the illusion that we have the power to determine what to do with it." - Mordecai Wyatt Johnson

"Reality is merely an illusion, albeit a very persistent one." - Albert Einstein

"It is far more difficult to murder a phantom that a reality." - Virginia Wolf

"Magic is the only honest profession. A magician promises to deceive you and he does." - Karl Germain

"Why do we call all our generous ideas illusions, and the mean ones thruths." Edith Warton, The House of Mirth

"To understand yourself: Is that a discovery or a creation?" - Pascal Mercier, Night train to Lisbon

"If you are not careful you will end up living the illusions that others have created for you." - Steven Redhead, The solution.