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.'
Sentiment: POSITIVE
Belief in the absence of illusions is itself an illusion.
I believe in illusion - I don't believe in magic.
Illusions are art, for the feeling person, and it is by art that we live, if we do.
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 am an illusionist. That's why I create art.
Illusion is needed to disguise the emptiness within.
When I did my first few television specials, my illusions were so advanced that it took a couple of years before the other illusionists could even figure out what I was doing, let alone try to imitate me.
Illusion is an anodyne, bred by the gap between wish and reality.
I am determined to live without illusions. I want to look at reality straight. Without hiding.
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.