Best illusion & creating Quotes | Short & Famous Sayings

“I'm really creating abstract shapes and relationships that work together. They come together and give the illusion of reality, but they're really abstract shapes. If you look at individual shapes, they aren't the shape of anything, but together they give you the illusion of hills and sun and flowers.”

Ifs Giving Looks Reality Together Individual Sun Flower Shapes Creating Illusion Hills Abstract Working Together

Author:John Newman

“We're in the world of creating illusions and giving people the ability to dream and to be inspired or moved.”

People World Giving Dream Ability Creating Illusion Moved Inspired Be Inspired

Author:Madonna Ciccone

“Thought can never capture the movement of life, it is much too slow. It is like lightning and thunder. They occur simultaneously, but sound, travelling slower than light, reaches you later, creating the illusion of two separate events.”

Two Light Sound Events Movement Creating Illusion Capture Lightning Thunder

Author:U.G. Krishnamurti

“Thus, the distance between any two galaxies increases in time, creating the illusion of mechanical motion. But in reality, galaxies just sit there, contemplating the spectacle of the universe creating more and more space in between them.”

Two Reality Universe Space Creating Illusion Increase Distance Contemplating Galaxy

Book:Faster Than The Speed Of Light: The Story of a Scientific Speculation

Source: Faster Than The Speed Of Light: The Story of a Scientific Speculation

“So long as a novelist works selfishly for the pleasure of creating character and situation corresponding to his own illusions, ideals and intuitions, he will always produce something worth while and natural. Directly he takes himself too seriously and begins for the alleged benefit of humanity an elaborate dissection of complexes, he evolves a book that is more ridiculous and tiresome than the most conventional cold cream girl novel of yesterday.”

Source: Willa Cather in person: interviews, speeches, and letters

“Science is the art of creating suitable illusions which the fool believes or argues against, but the wise man enjoys for their beauty or their ingenuity, without being blind to the fact that they are human veils and curtains concealing the abysmal darkness of the unknowable”

Men Believe Humans Art Facts Enjoy Darkness Wise Fool Creating Illusion Blind Arguing Veils Curtains Ingenuity Suitable Concealing

Author:Carl Jung

“A big part of filmmaking, and a big part of the power of filmmaking, is creating characters that people fall in love with. So, those things, like the bloopers, create more reality and dimension, and the sense that these are not drawings or shadows, but they are living, breathing, thinking characters. That's the illusion.”

People Thinking Character Bigs Reality Fall Creating Illusion Shadow Falling In Love Drawing Breathing Dimensions Filmmaking Bloopers Creating Characters

Author:Rob Minkoff

“I've always found that when you're trying to create illusions with sound, especially in a science fiction or fantasy movie, that pulling sounds from the world around us is a great way to cement that illusion because you can go out and record an elevator in George Lucas's house or something, and it will have that motor sound.”

World Way Trying Found House Sound Fiction Fantasy Records Creating Illusion Science Fiction Movie Filmmaking Pulling Motor Elevators Cement

Author:Ben Burtt

“We trained hard, but it seemed that every time we were beginning to form up into teams we would be reorganized. Presumably the plans for our employment were being changed. I was to learn later in life that, perhaps because we are so good at organizing, we tend as a nation to meet any new situation by reorganizing; and a wonderful method it can be for creating the illusion of progress while producing confusion, inefficiency and demoralization.”

“We trained hard ... but it seemed that every time we were beginning to form up into teams we would be reorganized. I was to learn later in life that we tend to meet any new situation by reorganizing; and a wonderful method it can be for creating the illusion of progress while producing confusion, inefficiency, and demoralization.”

“Bodybuilding is about making oneself seem larger than life. It's about creating the illusion of perfection.”

Body Seems Sports Creating Illusion Perfection Oneself Bodybuilding Larger Than Life

Book:Are We Winning Yet?: How Women are Changing Sports and Sports are Changing Women

Source: Are We Winning Yet?: How Women are Changing Sports and Sports are Changing Women

“When you look in the mirror, what do you see? Do you see the real you, or what you have been conditioned to believe is you? The two are so, so different. One is an infinite consciousness capable of being and creating whatever it chooses, the other is an illusion imprisoned by its own perceived and programmed limitations.”

Believe Looks Has Beens Two Different Real Consciousness Creating Capable Illusion Infinite Mirrors Limitation Real You Infinite Consciousness

Author:David Icke

“A system that rewards politicians skilled at campaigning - which is the art of creating an illusion - and that puts hundreds of billions of coerced taxpayer dollars at the disposal of the winners will tend to attract men and women with a comparative advantage in manipulation.”

Men Art Politician Creating Illusion Men And Women Advantage Dollars Rewards Billions Winner Manipulation Taxpayers Campaigning Comparative Advantage

Author:John Stossel

“Walking back and forth also helps by creating the illusion that you are thinking of the routines on the spot, giving your performance a more spontaneous feeling.”

Thinking Giving Helping Feelings Walking Creating Illusion Performances Spots Spontaneous Back And Forth

Book:Comic Insights: The Art of Stand-up Comedy

Source: Comic Insights: The Art of Stand-up Comedy

“When you make a film, you're creating the illusion of a natural experience. But everything is created on purpose. If I want you to be scared, I'm trying to scare you. If I want you to cry, I'm trying to make you sad. If I want you to laugh, I'm trying make you laugh. So, how I get you there is what makes it interesting, because I also want it to feel seamless, and not forced. That kind of constant experimentation is just fun to explore, and I love it.”

Ifs Want Feels Trying Kind Film Purpose Fun Natural Interesting Laughing Cry Creating Illusion Constant Scared Scare I Want You Experimentation Make You Laugh Seamless

Author:Lawrence Hilton-Jacobs

“That's the rational premise behind my spending hours of billable time adjusting my Facebook preferences. The real reason, of course, for all this stuff, is that it provides a way to blow off work you should be doing, while creating the illusion that you are achieving something.”

Way Should Real Reason Courses Stuff Hours Behinds Achieve Creating Illusion Blow Spending Rational Preference Premises Adjusting

Author:Jeffrey Zeldman

“Once you empower people and say,' Here you are, now you get to dream the great dream of becoming a full citizen with equal rights and radical improvement in your living situation,' you are creating an illusion which will break one day.”

People Dream Situation Break Rights Becoming Citizens One Day Equal Creating Illusion Improvement Radical Empowering Equal Rights

Author:Pankaj Mishra

“Marx's own illusion was to think that the working class movement, which he devoted his life to creating and strengthening, would both be socially and politically successful in the industrial nations of Western Europe, and that it would develop an entirely new way of human social life that would retain and even enhance the productive benefits of capitalism while overcoming the inhumanity and exploitation of capitalist social relations. Marx himself had no solutions to these problems. His object of study was capitalism itself.”

“There's nothing wrong with creating jobs. What's wrong is to seed the illusion that you will magically bring back the economy of 1970, that you will reopen coal mines.”

Jobs Economy Mines Creating Illusion Seeds Coal Creating Jobs

Author:David Remnick

“The magic of comics is that there are three people involved in any comic. There's whoever's writing it and whoever's drawing it. And then there's whoever's reading it because they are creating the movement. They are creating the illusion of time passing.”

People Writing Three Reading Magic Movement Involved Creating Illusion Drawing Passing Passings Comic Time Passing Time Passes Illusion Of Time

Author:Neil Gaiman

“Your problem is how you are going to spend this one odd and precious life you have been issued. Whether you're going to spend it trying to look good and creating the illusion that you have power over people and circumstances, or whether you are going to taste it, enjoy it and find out the truth about who you are.”

People Trying Looks Has Beens Problem Enjoy Circumstances Taste Creating Illusion Who You Are Odd Precious Life How Precious Life Is

Author:Anne Lamott

“Part of the way the work world works is not so much creating a separation between your work and your free time, but creating the illusion of a separation between your work and your free time. Every day is the weekend for me, which means I'm always busy.”

World Way Mean Creating Illusion Busy Separation Weekend Free Time

Author:Ian MacKaye

“Animation is about creating the illusion of life. And you can't create it if you don't have one.”

Ifs Creating Illusion Animation Illusions Of Life

Author:Brad Bird

“People may think I'm trying something new by telling stories, but they're just jokes connected to give the illusion of stories. But really, I just continue using my imagination and creating. That's what I do.”

People Thinking Giving Trying May Stories Imagination Creating Jokes Illusion Connected Something New My Imagination Telling Stories Trying Something Trying Something New

Author:Steven Wright

“But what else can we do when we're so weak? We invest hours each day, months each year, years each lifetime in something over which we have no control; it is any wonder then, that we are reduced to creating ingenious but bizarre liturgies designed to give us the illusion that we are powerful after all, just as every other primitive community has done when faced with a deep and apparently impenetrable mystery?”

Giving Years Done Community Hours Powerful Wonder Mystery Months Creating Illusion Weak Lifetime Each Day Primitive Bizarre Ingenious Liturgy

Author:Nick Hornby

“Television is altering the meaning of 'being informed' by creating a species of information that might properly be called disinformation. Disinformation does not mean false information. It means misleading information - misplaced, irrelevant, fragmented or superficial information - information that creates the illusion of knowing something, but which in fact leads one away from knowing.”

Mean Doe Facts Might Knowing Information Television Creating Illusion Species Superficial Irrelevant Mislead Fragmented Misplaced Knowing Something

Book:Amusing Ourselves to Death: Public Discourse in the Age of Show Business

Source: Amusing Ourselves to Death: Public Discourse in the Age of Show Business

“People who cling to their illusions find it difficult, if not impossible, to learn anything worth learning: a people under the necessity of creating themselves must examine everything, and soak up learning the way the roots of a tree soak up water.”

People Ifs Way Difficult Water Impossible Tree Creating Illusion Roots

Author:James A. Baldwin

“Deep breaths. I am taking deep breaths. Composure. Which, for me, means composing... Maybe this is my way of creating the illusion of control over something I have no control over. Like, if it's just a story I'm telling or a song I'm singing, then I'll be okay because I'm the guy who's providing the words.”

Ifs Way Mean Stories Guy Song Creating Singing Illusion Okay Breaths My Way Providing Composing Deep Breath Composure Illusion Of Control

Book:Nick & Norah's Infinite Playlist

Source: Nick & Norah's Infinite Playlist

“Don't part with your illusions. When they are gone you may still exist, but you have ceased to live. To live a fulfilled life, we need to keep creating the "what is next", of our lives. Without dreams and goals there is no living, only merely existing, and that is not why we are here.”

Needs May Stills Dream Next Goal Gone Our Lives Inspirational Life Creating Illusion Fulfilled Dreams And Goals Fulfilled Life Why We Are Here Merely Existing

Author:Mark Twain

“You hear things like, ‘People shouldn’t know about your life because you’re creating an illusion on-screen.’ But I don’t see other actresses going to great lengths to hide their heterosexuality. That’s an unfair double standard.”

People Knows Creating Standards Illusion Actresses Screens Length Unfair Double Standard Heterosexuality

Author:Ellen Page

“Where the Old Masters created an illusion of space into which one could imagine walking, the illusion created by a Modernist is one into which one can look, can travel through, only with the eye.”

Looks Art Eye Imagination Space Imagine Creation Painting Masters Walking Travel Creating Illusion Critics Modernism

Author:Clement Greenberg

“Today we are beginning to notice that the new media are not just mechanical gimmicks for creating worlds of illusion, but new languages with new and unique powers of expression.”

World Today Language Media Expression Creating Unique Illusion Gimmicks New Media Creating Worlds

Author:Marshall McLuhan

“We have been ruled by men who live by illusions ... the illusion that there is some other way of creating wealth than hard work and satisfying your customers.”

Men Way Has Beens Hard Wealth Hard Work Creating Illusion Customers Live By Satisfying Creating Wealth

Book:The collected speeches of Margaret Thatcher

Source: The collected speeches of Margaret Thatcher

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