Illusion is an anodyne, bred by the gap between wish and reality.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
Illusion is needed to disguise the emptiness within.
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.
I think the pursuit of happiness is the pursuit of reality because illusion never leaves us ultimately happy.
I am an illusionist. That's why I create art.
I believe in illusion - I don't believe in magic.
We all need illusions. That's why we love movies.
Belief demands that you dispense with illusion after illusion, while contemporary common sense requires continual, fluffy pretending - pretending that might as well be systematic, it's so thoroughly incentivised by our culture.
I like illusion when it is so convincing that we might as well see reality this way - I like to present to our belief system something that is convincing, that 'we know not to be.'
Illusions are art, for the feeling person, and it is by art that we live, if we do.
Belief in the absence of illusions is itself an illusion.