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Illusions commend themselves to us because they save us pain and allow us to enjoy pleasure instead. We must therefore accept it without complaint when they sometimes collide with a bit of reality against which they are dashed to pieces.

We all need illusions. That's why we love movies.

I am an illusionist. That's why I create art.

While producing art works, illusions appear from time to time due to my mental illness. Every day is a struggle for me.

I must be more sensible and realize that at my age, illusions are hardly permitted and they will always destroy me.

Belief in the absence of illusions is itself an illusion.

Illusion is needed to disguise the emptiness within.

I don't have any illusions anymore. The illusion that rock 'n' roll could change anything - I don't believe that. I've changed.

Life and death are illusions. We are in a constant state of transformation.