Quotes about Illusion
We live, I regret to say, in an age of surfaces
— Oscar Wilde
The fact is that we look back on the ages entirely through the medium of Art, and Art, very fortunately, has never once told us the truth.
— Oscar Wilde
What the worm was to the corpse, his sins would be to the painted image on the canvas.
— Oscar Wilde
There was evidently no time to be lost, so, hastily adopting the Fourth dimension of Space as a means of escape, he vanished through the wainscoting, and the house became quite quiet.
— Oscar Wilde
Life at times loses its sense of reality; it appears to us like a weird, optical illusion - a phantasmagoric bubble that will disappear at the slightest breath.
— Oscar Wilde
To test reality we must see it on the tight rope. When the verities become acrobats, we can judge them.
— Oscar Wilde
The world is a stage, but the play is badly cast.
— Oscar Wilde
I had been foolish in imagining that I had seen anything in it, more than that you were extremely good looking, and that I could paint.
— Oscar Wilde
Art and art only, can make archaeology beautiful; and the theatric art can use it most directly and most vividly, for it can combine in one exquisite presentation the illusion of actual life with the wonder of the unreal world.
— Oscar Wilde
The whole of Japan is a pure invention. There is no such country, there are no such people.
— Oscar Wilde
You can dine with me to-night, Dorian, can't you?" He shook his head. "To-night she is Imogen," he answered, "and to-morrow night she will be Juliet." "When is she Sibyl Vane?" "Never." "I congratulate you.
— Oscar Wilde
Appearance is, in fact, a matter of effect merely, and it is with the effects of nature that you have to deal, not with the real condition of the object.
— Oscar Wilde