“By poetry we mean the art of employing of words in such a manner as to produce an illusion on the imagination; the art of doing by means of words, what the painter does by means of colors”
Thomas Babington Macaulay
“Don't part with your illusions. When they are gone you may still exist, but you have ceased to live.”
Mark Twain
“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.”
F. Sagan
“Illusions are art, for the feeling person, and it is by art that we live, if we do”
Elizabeth Bowen
“If they can't swallow facts, let them eat fiction.”
Rain Bojangles
“The highest problem of any art is to cause by appearance the illusion of a higher reality.”
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
“The highest problem of every art is, by means of appearances, to produce the illusion of a loftier reality”
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