In a Nutshell

Source: http://www.sharenator.com/Insane_illusions_architecture/

Illusions are the truths we live by until we know better.

-          Nancy Gibbs

If I am not for myself, who is for me?

If I am only for myself, what am I?

If not now, when?

-          Hillel

Don’t part with your illusions. When they are gone you may still exist, but you have ceased to live.

-          Mark Twain

It is our illusions that create the world.

-          Didier Cauwelaert

Photography, as we all know, is not real at all. It is an illusion of reality with which we create our own private world.

-          Arnold Newman

I have realized that the past and future are real illusions, that they exist in the present, which is what there is and all there is.

-          Alan Watts

Illusions are art, for the feeling person, and it is by art that we live, if we do.

-          Elizabeth Bowen

It is respectable to have illusions – and safe – and profitable, and dull.

-          Joseph Conrad

I’ve looked at life from both sides now

From win and lose and still somehow

It’s life’s illusions I recall

I really don’t know life at all.

-          Joni Mitchell

Reality is merely an illusion, albeit a very persistent one.

-          Albert Einstein

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Posted on April 16th, 2010 under Art of Reframing, Chapters, English • Tags: Albert Einstein, art, future, illusion, Mark Twain, past, photography, present, reality, world. • • RSS 2.0 feed • Leave a response, or trackback