Top 66 Illusion Art Quotes
#1. In a world of illusion, art is the soul shining through with the light of infinite potential.
Ka Chinery
#2. 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
#5. Life is an illusion. I am held together in the nothingness by art.
Anselm Kiefer
#6. If you are really bored with life, just meet a decent magician and have a close up magic show, he will restore inspiration in your life.
Amit Kalantri
#7. A chord that becomes a melodious delusion,
In polar discrepancy from blue to yellow painted,
In yellow I existed, with digoxin's deadly illusion,
Like Van Gogh's stars in a bright night untainted.
Selina A. Mahmood
#8. 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
#9. Illusion I will be, for I've never been a sinner.
David Bowie
#10. Project management is the art of creating the illusion that any outcome is the result of a series of predetermined, deliberate acts when, in fact, it was dumb luck.
Harold Kerzner
#11. Illusion - or rather appearance, semblance - is the theme of my life (could be theme of speech welcoming freshmen to the Academy). All that is, seems, and is visible to us because we perceive it by the reflected light of semblance. Nothing else is visible.
Gerhard Richter
#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. We are not disillusioned because we have no illusions ... What we have and what is our strength, is our joy in life ... in all its amoral aspects. That is also the basis of our contemporary art.
Asger Jorn
#14. 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
#15. Art gives us the illusion of liberation from the sordid business of being.
Fernando Pessoa
#18. By poetry we mean the art of employing of words in such a manner as to produce an illusion on the imagination; the art of doing by means of words, what the painter does by means of colors.
Thomas B. Macaulay
#20. As a general rule, in the world of magic, the most successful magician is the one who has enough patience to keep the secrets of his original magic effects.
Amit Kalantri
#21. A great magician is not more magical than other magicians; he is just more magical in his presentation.
Amit Kalantri
#22. Art achieves all little things by absolute truth: but all her great things need some admixture of illusion.
Richard B. Garnett
#23. Give royal treatment to your original magic effects, because one of the effects might make you the king of magic.
Amit Kalantri
#24. Models are there to look like mannequins, not like real people. Art and illusion are supposed to be fantasy.
Grace Jones
#25. To me, the art of cinema is the same as the art of painting. The artist takes a 2D medium and gives you the illusion of depth. If you look at any of the great paintings, you have the illusion of depth. Which is part of the art. The same with the great movies.
William Friedkin
#26. 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
#27. To me, the art of movies is to take a two-dimensional image and give the illusion of depth.
William Friedkin
#28. Magic is not just for the entertainment, but to inspire people to be creative enough with their lives.
Amit Kalantri
#29. Everything appears to me to be authored, in some strange way. And I wonder if this is not the spreading assumption of the psychedelic illusion/delusion/revelation that life is in fact art.
Terence McKenna
#31. The fog of illusion, the fog of confusion is hanging all over the world.
Van Morrison
#32. What I say is misdirection, what you see is an illusion and what results is magic.
Amit Kalantri
#33. Sometimes my art is just an illusion - or is it?
Criss Angel
#34. Sometimes for the spectators a great magic effect is worth a life's experience.
Amit Kalantri
#35. Digital forms are best illuminated by cultural criticism, which uses the tools of art and literary theory to make sense of the Internet's glorious illusion: that the Internet is life. Because
Virginia Heffernan
#36. 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
#37. 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
#38. Divinity is accident of nature, magic is the work of an art.
Amit Kalantri
#39. I am against limitations like perspective. Perspective is illusion, it's the opposite of presence, and art is presence.
Pierre Soulages
#40. The art of a magician is not found in the simple deception, but in what surrounds it, the construction of a reality which supports the illusion.
Jim Steinmeyer
#41. When my words are concealed
With lies and disguises, truth and beyond
Insecurities in the veil of trust
Betrayal in bounds of lies
It's just the charm of words darling
Giving the illusion of happiness inside misery
Irum Zahra
#42. I pastiche, I quote, I lie. Fake, forge, forage, fabricate, copy, borrow, transform, steal. I illusion. I'm a genuine deceiver, a shy sham artist.
Shawna Lemay
#43. A magician with decreasing practice sessions will give defective performances.
Amit Kalantri
#44. The romantic myth of the artist says that you are the Source. I have no illusion about that. Native Americans don't believe they are the Source. They have access to the Source. Endless access. But don't get confused.
Tori Amos
#45. Dream delivers us to dream, and there is no end to illusion. Life is like a train of moods like a string of beads, and, as we pass through them, they prove to be many-colored lenses which paint the world their own hue ...
Ralph Waldo Emerson
#46. Lie really could be construed as the art of illusion by some people.
Heather Graham
#47. Magic is the stunning art of surprising your audience, so that nothing else surprises them.
Amit Kalantri
#48. A great magician is as divine as God and his stage is as majestic as the paradise.
Amit Kalantri
#49. 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
#50. Illusion and wisdom combined are the charm of life and art.
Joseph Joubert
#51. Some popular quotations smell of airless closets. They exhale the stale imagination of the intellectual lower middle class. "Suspension of disbelief" has become one of them. Dressed up as a scintillating double negation, it serves the pedestrian notion of art as illusion.
Rudolf Arnheim
#52. Art is a Great Goddess of infinite intrigue and illusion, and even a lifetime of worship may not find her fickle soul.
Robert Genn
#53. Magic's an art where you use slight of hand or illusion to create wonder. And I was just intrigued with that idea.
David Blaine
#54. General belief is "There is no real magic, only tricks" but a great magician compel people not to trust that belief and make them believe, after all "There does exist a real magic".
Amit Kalantri
#55. 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
#56. It is no wonder if Art frequently prefers Illusion to Truth: for Illusion is her servant, but Truth her mistress.
Richard B. Garnett
#57. 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
#58. Art is the perpetual motion of illusion. The highest purpose of art is to inspire. What else can you do? What else can you do for any one but inspire them?
Bob Dylan
#59. There is no truth beyond illusion ... between 'reality' on the one hand, and the point where reality comes into being, where two very different surfaces mingle and blur to provide what life does not: and this is the space where all art exists, and magic.
Donna Tartt
#60. Art has a double face, of expression and illusion, just like science has a double face: the reality of error and the phantom of truth.
Publilius Syrus
#62. All life rests on appearance, art, illusion, optics, the need for perspective and for error ...
Friedrich Nietzsche
#63. Art is a never-ending dance of illusions.
Bob Dylan
#64. 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
#65. No matter how many times audience has already applauded, the sound of their applause will get louder with the better quality of your magic effect.
Amit Kalantri
#66. A great piece of music make people to close their eyes but a great magic effect make their eyes wide open.
Amit Kalantri
