Deceptive Art Quotes

Art is a lie that makes us realise truth ... that is given us to understand.

I like being fooled. When I watch someone who does sleight-of-hand and fools me, it's a great feeling.

Art' is the same word as 'artifice,' that is to say, something deceitful. It must succeed in giving the impression of nature by false means.

Art is the most beautiful of all lies.

Whenever a great painter... does a work which appears to be false and lying, that falsity is very true.

Magic is an art form where you lie and tell people you are lying.

From the point of view of art, there are no concrete or abstract forms, but only forms which are more or less convincing lies.

I no longer worry whether a painting is about something or not. I am only concerned with the expectation, from a flat surface, of an illusion.

The public wants work which flatters its illusions.

Why do most great pictures look uncontrived? Why do photographers bother with the deception, especially since it so often requires the hardest work of all? The answer is, I think, that the deception is necessary if the goal of art is to be reached: only pictures that look as if they had been easily made can convincingly suggest that beauty is commonplace.

I am an illusionist. That's why I create art.

Transforms old print To zigzag manuscript, and cheats the eyes Of gallery critics by a thousand arts.

Photography can be a deceitful, superficial medium that leads us into believing something even though we know it's not necessarily true. It lulls us into a false sense of complacency.

Frauds master our minds; magicians, like poets and lovers, engage them in a permanent maze of possibilities.

Every work of art is a trick by which the artist manipulates appearances.