Of course the illusion of art is to make one believe that great literature is very close to life, but exactly the opposite is true. Life is amorphous, literature is formal.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
Art is the most beautiful deception of all. And although people try to incorporate the everyday events of life in it, we must hope that it will remain a deception lest it become a utilitarian thing, sad as a factory.
Art is a deception that creates real emotions - a lie that creates a truth. And when you give yourself over to that deception, it becomes magic.
Sometimes my art is just an illusion - or is it?
I think art is more glorious than life but not more real.
Sometimes art imitates life.
I think there is a hunger for things that wake you up, something that makes you peel back your eyes, that reminds you that you are alive. Art is at its best when it is in the 'now.'
Art does imitate life, it has to come from somewhere. To put boundaries and limitations on it doesn't make a lot of sense to me.
Art has a double face, of expression and illusion, just like science has a double face: the reality of error and the phantom of truth.
Art is essentially communication. It doesn't exist in a vacuum. That's why people make art, so other people can relate to it.
Life imitates art far more than art imitates Life.
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