QuotaBillsThe painting has a life of its own. - Jackson Pollock
Illusion is the first of all pleasures. - Oscar Wilde
Time is an illusion. Lunchtime doubly so. - Douglas Adams
Life is painting a picture, not doing a sum. - Oliver Wendell Holmes
Inflation: everyone's illusion of wealth - Unknown
What is this, an audience or an oil painting? - Milton Berle
Noise creates illusions. Silence brings truth. - Maxime Lagace
I hardly ever stretch the canvas before painting. - Jackson Pollock
The only time I feel alive is when I'm painting. - Andy Warhol
Painting is stronger than me, it makes me do its bidding. - Pablo Picasso
What a strange illusion to suppose that beauty is goodness. - Leo Tolstoy
Reality is merely an illusion, albeit a very persistent one. - Albert Einstein
Love is the child of illusion and the parent of disillusion. - Miguel de Unamuno
If we choose, we can live in a world of comforting illusion. - Noam Chomsky
Illusion is the dust the devil throws in the eyes of the foolish. - Minna Antrim
Some of my best friends are illusions. Been sustaining me for years. - Sheila Ballantyne
A painting is never finished — it simply stops in interesting places. - Paul Gardner
Our separation from each other is an optical illusion of consciousness. - Albert Einstein
Never say never because limits, like fears, are often just an illusion. - Michael Jordan
Pickup artist: An artist whose specialty is painting pictures of trucks - Daffynitions joe-ks.com
A man loses his illusions first, his teeth second, and his follies last. - Helen Rowland
Out of suffering comes creativity. You cannot spell painting without pain. - John Lithgow
Normal is an illusion. What is normal for the spider is chaos for the fly. - Morticia Addams
Perspective is to painting what the bridle is to the horse, the rudder to a ship. - Leonardo da Vinci
The single biggest problem in communication is the illusion that it has taken place. - George Bernard Shaw
Like the cosmetics industry, the securities business is engaged in selling illusion. - Paul Samuelson
The greatest obstacle to discovery is not ignorance - it is the illusion of knowledge. - Daniel J. Boorstin
Free will is an illusion. People always choose the perceived path of greatest pleasure. - Scott Adams
Wishes and fears are illusions, Dil Bahadur, not realities. You must practice detachment. - Isabel Allende
We live in a fantasy world, a world of illusion. The great task in life is to find reality. - Irish Murdoch
It's not your painting anymore. It stopped being your painting the moment that you finished it. - Jeff Melvoin
Don't part with your illusions. When they are gone you may still exist but you have ceased to live. - Mark Twain
What if everything is an illusion and nothing exists? In that case, I definitely overpaid for my carpet. - Woody Allen
Sometimes people don't want to hear the truth because they don't want their illusions destroyed. - Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche
Dreams or illusions, call them what you will, they lift us from the commonplace of life to better things. - Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
Self-consciousness is the enemy of all art, be it acting, writing, painting, or living itself, which is the greatest art of all. - Ray Bradbury
When it began, cubism was a sort of analysis, which was no more painting than the description of physical phenomena was physics. - Juan Gris
We would rather be ruined than changed. We would rather die in our dread than climb the cross of the moment and let our illusions die. - W H Auden
Painting is a blind man's profession. He paints not what he sees, but what he feels, what he tells himself about what he has seen. - Pablo Picasso
Love easily confuses us because it is always in flux between illusion and substance, between memory and wish, between contentment and need. - Tom Robbins