#illusion

The source of all the material comes from nothingness, illusion is working more on things you can prove. That's the principle, the essence of life, it is actually an illusion, not immaterial. That's worth pursuing. So illusion is not nothing. In a way, that is the truth. ↗

— Ang Lee

#comes #essence #illusion #immaterial #life

These critics with the illusions they've created about artists - it's like idol worship. They only like people when they're on their way up... I cannot be on the way up again. ↗

— John Lennon

#again #artists #cannot #created #critics

I came down to the living room one day and my wife was standing in the living room. It wasn't an illusion. I saw her out of the corner of my eye. The moment I saw her, she vanished. ↗

— Hugh Leonard

#corner #day #down #eye #her

Therefore trust to thy heart, and to what the world calls illusions. ↗

— Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

#heart #illusions #therefore #thy #trust

The secret to film is that it's an illusion. ↗

— George Lucas

#film #illusion #secret

Show me a man who claims he is objective and I'll show you a man with illusions. ↗

— Henry R. Luce

#i #illusions #man #me #objective

Nothing like being visible, publishing one's work, and speaking openly about one's life, to disabuse the world of the illusion of one's perfection and purity. ↗

— Joyce Maynard

#being #illusion #life #like #nothing

Architects of grandeur are often the master builders of disillusionment. ↗

— Bryant H. McGill

#builders #disillusionment #grandeur #master #often

No illusion is more crucial than the illusion that great success and huge money buy you immunity from the common ills of mankind, such as cars that won't start. ↗

— Larry McMurtry

#buy #cars #common #crucial #great

I never look at other people's work. My mind has to be completely focused on my own illusions. ↗

— Alexander McQueen

#focused #i #illusions #look #mind