What is called a sincere work is one that is endowed with enough strength to give reality to an illusion.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
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.
Whether art is defined as a representation of or response to reality, it demands an intense engagement with things we haven't managed to understand fully.
Illusions are art, for the feeling person, and it is by art that we live, if we do.
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.
I am an illusionist. That's why I create art.
It may be that the deep necessity of art is the examination of self-deception.
While I recognize the necessity for a basis of observed reality... true art lies in a reality that is felt.
The preserve of ambition and folly in pursuit of illusion, or delusion.
My work is not great, but it's respectable. I have no false illusions.
My work is about the establishment of trust. For someone to share their authenticity with me is a soul-to-soul thing. It's not a lens-to-soul thing.