Academy Quote by Gerhard Richter

Life is invisible. The illusion is that what we perceive is in some way not a reflection of self. Life reflects the field of…

— Frederick Lenz

Illusion is the mantle of the Real

— Frederick Franck

Illusions are art, for the feeling person, and it is by art that we live, if we do.

— Elizabeth Bowen

I think illusion is one of the most interesting things that I've found to think about. Just look at yesterday, and what you were…

— Laurie Anderson

Everything is an illusion.

— Mata Hari

“That illusion—as such a point of view was, in due course, to appear—was closely related to another belief: that existence fans out indefinitely into…

— Anthony Powell

Illusion is needed to disguise the emptiness within.

— Arthur Erickson

“To not be able to see ‘as it is’ and to see it in some another form is called illusion (bhranti).”

— Dada Bhagwan

We create the illusions we need to go on. And one day, when they no longer dazzle or comfort, we tear them down, brick…

— Libba Bray

This world may be only illusion -- but it's the only illusion we've got.

— Edward Abbey

I am an illusionist - that's why I create art.

— Marilyn Minter

One of my principal concerns is the contradiction between appearance and reality - illusion and reality. I try to set up an expectation of…

— Stuart Pearson Wright