Delusion Quote by Lionel Suggs

“Always suffer delusions of grandeur with your art. What you are unable to face will never hurt you”

— Ginnetta Correli

“And you have to be careful with illusionists: sometimes evil deceives us by assuming the simplest form of things.”

— Donato Carrisi

“I had learned many times that the more you try to get people to deny their illusions, the stronger the illusions can become. But…

— Phillip DePoy

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

— Marilyn Minter

“Illusions can be very convincing. No one has any reason to suspect that I am anything less than what I appear.”

— Maggi Myers

“As an artist, her imagination isn't fettered by the constraints of reality.”

— Sarah Cross

It is no wonder if Art frequently prefers Illusion to Truth: for Illusion is her servant, but Truth her mistress.

— Richard B. Garnett

“As a matter of fact, no one is more tiresome than the person who can understand only realism in art. It shows a rather…

— Aaron Copland

“Not all illusions are visual. There are illusions of thought, which we call cognitive illusions.”

— Daniel Kahneman

“A woman's beauty should not imitate art.”

— Lionel Suggs

Beauty, therefore, for the modern and postmodern artist has become a highly dubious metaphor for a discredited belief system.

— John Walford

“Any artist is insulted by the suggestion that art is merely a matter of recording reality, and knows that it is impossible to explain…

— Joan Lindsay