Illusion Quotes

The idea that the world can unite without being regulated is clearly an illusion.

Everything's fine today, that is our illusion.

We have an illusion of security, we don't have security.

If you understand hallucination and illusion, you don't blindly follow any leader. You must know if the person is sane or insane, over the abyss.

Sometimes my art is just an illusion - or is it?

The passage of time is simply an illusion created by our brains.

Animation is about creating the illusion of life. And you can't create it if you don't have one.

People have the illusion that all over the world, all the time, all kinds of fantastic things are happening. When in fact, over most of the world, most of the time, nothing is happening.

The world is real. Consciousness is the illusion.

Is not this whole world an illusion? And yet it fools everybody.

If we choose, we can live in a world of comforting illusion.

For you who no longer posses it, freedom is everything, for us who do, it is merely an illusion.

We must select the illusion which appeals to our temperament, and embrace it with passion, if we want to be happy.

The key is for the audience never to know, so I have a plan B for every illusion.

Censors tend to do what only psychotics do: they confuse reality with illusion.

Illusion is needed to disguise the emptiness within.

Clinton impressed Assad: a young man who appeared to want to be neutral in the Arab-Israeli dispute - an illusion of course, but that's what Assad thought.

A woman should be an illusion.

We don't believe other people's experiences can tell us all that much about our own. I think this is an illusion of uniqueness.

The illusion that times that were are better than those that are, has probably pervaded all ages.

Painting is an illusion, a piece of magic, so what you see is not what you see.

The painting is not on a surface, but on a plane which is imagined. It moves in a mind. It is not there physically at all. It is an illusion, a piece of magic, so that what you see is not what you see.

Belief in the absence of illusions is itself an illusion.

As in The Lime Twig dream and illusion are right at the center of Charivari.

That time is important. It gives a comforting illusion of permanence not found in running by the mile.

We're living under the illusion that we have the power to determine what to do with it.

Models are there to look like mannequins, not like real people. Art and illusion are supposed to be fantasy.

Nothing is more sad than the death of an illusion.

I'm intrigued by fanatics - people who are seduced by the promise, or the illusion, of the absolute.

There's a way in which 'The Illusion' is a play about the theater.

We're in an illusion about what our role is in world politics and foreign affairs, and our policies are killing and destroying and doing a lot of things that we are not aware of.

The problem with our role is Americans live in a world of illusion.

In antihistory, time is an illusion.

I don't really believe that documentary is objective reality and fiction is all illusion.

What will growth policy have to look like in a fiscally compacted Europe? Clearly any illusion of budget stimulated growth policy will have to go away.

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

I'm not under too much of an illusion of how smart or un-smart I am because filmmaking ultimately is about teamwork.

Ultimately, it's an illusion that you can understand yourself.

There is no 'I.' That's an illusion we've got to get beyond.

Just as the 99% of Soviet citizens who supported the Soviet regime in 1985 was no indication of what the people inside the USSR really thought, the army of true believers that we think we see in the Arab world is an illusion.

I have, alas, only one illusion left, and that is the Archbishop of Canterbury.

It is necessary to expose the false propaganda of the imperialists and thoroughly dispel the illusion that the imperialists will give up their positions in the colonies and dependent countries with good will.

I probably complicate things unnecessarily now just to give the illusion of professionalism.

I think that the Oscar gives you some kind of guts or something, it gives you the illusion that you can do it. It's good for business.

In any city with lots of skyscrapers, lots of skyline, the moon seems bigger than it is. It's called the moon illusion.

There is no such thing as conversation. It is an illusion. There are intersecting monologues, that is all.