Nothing is more sad than the death of an illusion.
I always liked the magic of poetry but now I'm just starting to see behind the curtain of even the best poets, how they've used, tried and tested craft to create the illusion. Wonderful feeling of exhilaration to finally be there.
It's really easy to get colors right. It's really hard to get black - and neutrals - right. Black is certainly a color but it's also an illusion.
There is the illusion of the world and the reality of the Torah.
Models are there to look like mannequins, not like real people. Art and illusion are supposed to be fantasy.
We're living under the illusion that we have the power to determine what to do with it.
Only here, because of the illusion of intellectualism, our society separates the validity of human expression.
The preserve of ambition and folly in pursuit of illusion, or delusion.
What is called a sincere work is one that is endowed with enough strength to give reality to an illusion.
Infinite love is the only truth. Everything else is illusion.
In this life struggle, here I am among you fully cognizant that a true believer has no fear of what God has ordained for him. Those who are visited by fear live only for their present, under the illusion that the world began with them and will end with their departure.
He didn't maintain my illusion of myself, he gave me an illusion of myself. Before I met him, I never thought of myself as an actress. Boy, he sidetracked me in a great way!
If time is not real, then the dividing line between this world and eternity, between suffering and bliss, between good and evil, is also an illusion.
That time is important. It gives a comforting illusion of permanence not found in running by the mile.
The time of illusion, then, is the beautiful moment of passion; it represents the artistic zone in which the poet or romance writer ought to be free to do the very best that he can.