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

- Elizabeth Bowen

God is not disillusioned with us. He never had any illusions to begin with.

- Luis Palau

I had no illusions that my career would be any longer than three years tops.

- Linda Evangelista

I'm under no illusions about the importance of my work. But if it has any worth, it is that it truly reflects the Brazilian people.

- Jorge Amado

Official truths are often powerful illusions.

- John Pilger

I have no illusions about having another 'Seinfeld' in my life.

- Jason Alexander

It is respectable to have no illusions, and safe, and profitable and dull.

- Joseph Conrad

I'm an idealist without illusions.

- John F. Kennedy

Show me a man who claims he is objective and I'll show you a man with illusions.

- Henry R. Luce

It takes a lot to wound a man without illusions.

- Ellis Peters

You can watch actors create their illusions, but if you don't see where they get the pigeons from, you don't really know how they're doing it.

- Alan Alda

Dreams are illusions, and we can't let go of them because we would be dead.

- David Copperfield

I'd always wanted to do these types of things - pieces of magic I could put out not as illusions, but really doing it.

- David Blaine

'The Mahabharata,' which inspired my novel 'Palace of Illusions,' also has many stories embedded within the main tale.

- Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni

There's a higher place that I have no illusions about reaching. There's a sophistication and aesthetic about composers who only write only for the music's sake.

- Bill Conti

For awhile, I got stupid about only wanting a leading-man role, but I have no illusions. I know I'm not Brad Pitt.

- Breckin Meyer

Words are illusions.

- Bodhidharma

The challenge of modernity is to live without illusions and without becoming disillusioned.

- Antonio Gramsci

I never look at other people's work. My mind has to be completely focused on my own illusions.

- Alexander McQueen

Life and death are illusions. We are in a constant state of transformation.

- Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu