Art is not imitation, but Illusion. [ Charles Reade ]
Illusion is the first of all pleasures. [ Voltaire ]
All was deception, a lie, and illusion. [ Johann Wolfgang von Goethe ]
Illusion is brief, but repentance is long. [ Schiller ]
The illusion is brief, the remorse is long. [ Friedrich Schiller ]
In love, one is cured of one illusion by another.
And glory long has made the sages smile;
It is something, nothing, words, illusion, wind -
Depending more upon the historian's style
Than on the name a person leaves behind. [ Byron ]
When the heart speaks, glory itself is an illusion. [ Napoleon I ]
Laughter is sometimes the knell of a dead illusion. [ De Finod ]
What we gain by experience is not worth what we lose in illusion. [ J. Petit-Senn ]
As long as the heart preserves desire, the mind preserves illusion. [ Chateaubriand ]
Pleasure may come of illusion, but happiness can only come of reality. [ Chamfort ]
Pleasure can be supported by illusion, but happiness rests upon truth. [ Chamfort ]
What a force of illusion begins life with us, and attends us to the end! [ Ralph Waldo Emerson ]
Glory long has made the sages smile; 'tis something, nothing, words, illusion, wind. [ Byron ]
The highest problem of any art is to cause by appearance the illusion of a higher reality. [ Goethe ]
To a father who loves his children victory has no charms. When the heart speaks, glory itself is an illusion. [ Napoleon I ]
The ordinary true, or purely real, cannot be the object of the arts. Illusion on a ground of truth - that is the secret of the fine arts. [ Joubert ]
We live only on debris; instead of despair, we have indifference; love itself is treated as an ancient illusion. Where has the soul of the world taken refuge? [ Mme. Louise Colet ]
The business of the dramatist is to keep himself out of sight, and to let nothing appear but his characters. As soon as he attracts notice to his personal feelings, the illusion is broken. [ Macaulay ]
Misery is so little appertaining to our nature, and happiness so much so, that we in the same degree of illusion only lament over that which has pained us, but leave unnoticed that which has rejoiced us. [ Richter ]