Art Is An Illusion Quotes

#1. The most important quality of art and its aim is illusion; emotion, which is often obtained by certain sacrifices of poetic detail, is something else entirely and of an inferior order.

Gustave Flaubert

#2. Illusory universality is the universality of the art of the culture industry, it is the universality of the homogeneous same, an art which no longer even promises happiness but only provides easy amusement as relief from labour.

J.M. Bernstein

#3. Divinity is accident of nature, magic is the work of an art.

Amit Kalantri

#4. What of Art?
-It is a malady.
Love?
-An Illusion.
Religion?
-The fashionable substitute for Belief.
You are a sceptic.
-Never! Scepticism is the beginning of Faith.
What are you?
-To define is to limit.

Oscar Wilde

#5. Illusion and wisdom combined are the charm of life and art.

Joseph Joubert

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

Robert Genn

#7. Of course the illusion of art is to make one believe that great literature is very close to life, but exactly the opposite is true. Life is amorphous, literature is formal.

Francoise Sagan

#8. Love is a simple thing and a deep thing: it is an act of life and not an illusion. Art is an illusion.

George Bernard Shaw

#9. The necessity of loyalty between friends, the responsibility that the strong owe the infirm, the illusion of ill-gotten gain, the rewards of hard work, honesty, and trust-these are enduring truths glimpsed and judged first through the imagination, first through art.

Michael Dorris

#10. Well, I also love magic, which is, you know, different than showmanship. Magic's an art where you use slight of hand or illusion to create wonder.

David Blaine

#11. What of Art?' she asked
'It is a malody.'
'Love?'
'Illusion'
'Religion?'
'A fashionable substitute for belief.'
'What are you?'
'To define is to limit

Oscar Wilde

#12. The ordinary true, or purely real, cannot be the object of the arts. Illusion on a ground of truth,
that is the secret of the fine arts.

Joseph Joubert

#13. In a world of illusion, art is the soul shining through with the light of infinite potential.

Ka Chinery

#14. A system that rewards politicians skilled at campaigning - which is the art of creating an illusion - and that puts hundreds of billions of coerced taxpayer dollars at the disposal of the winners will tend to attract men and women with a comparative advantage in manipulation.

John Stossel

#15. Life is an illusion. I am held together in the nothingness by art.

Anselm Kiefer

#16. The secret of good magic is another magic.

Amit Kalantri

#17. A great magician is not more magical than other magicians; he is just more magical in his presentation.

Amit Kalantri

#18. When art assumes the omnipotence of reality, when we feel we suffer as much from an illusion as from truth, our sufferings lose all dignity and all consolation. We

Charles Robert Maturin

#19. Time is an illusion, timing is an art.

Stefan Emunds

#20. What I say is misdirection, what you see is an illusion and what results is magic.

Amit Kalantri

#21. Sometimes my art is just an illusion - or is it?

Criss Angel