Visual Deception Quotes

We always have a tendency to see those things that do not exist and to be blind to the great lessons that are right there before our eyes.

You can Photoshop something, put it out, and everyone believes it.

We have these images, these icons before us that are not reality.

Films are even stranger, for what we are seeing are not disguised people but photographs of disguised people, and yet we believe them while the film is being shown.

Seeing-is-believing is a blind spot in man's vision.

Geometry is the art of correct reasoning from incorrectly drawn figures.

Color deceives continuously.

Everything we see hides another thing, we always want to see what is hidden by what we see.

Mirrors,' she said, 'are never to be trusted.

I think people are more apt to believe photographs, especially if it’s something fantastic. They’re willing to be more gullible. Sometimes they want fantasy. Even if they know it’s fake they can believe anything. People are accustomed to being told what to believe in.

Don't ever believe what you see in films.

Figures are the most shocking things in the world. The prettiest little squiggles of black looked at in the right light and yet consider the blow they can give you upon the heart.

There are no such things as Flowers there are only gladdened Leaves.

The secret to film is that it's an illusion.

If you create a visual that actually captures the imagination, that's not real. It will look real, and that will spread at such lightning speed that by the time it's found out, it has already done its damage. It's a very, very scary time that we're living in. I say it's an age of absurdity.

Photography's ability to blur truth and fiction is one of its most compelling qualities. But when misused... this ambiguity can have severe, even lethal consequences.... Photography's ambiguity, beautiful in one context, can be devastating in another.

And the same things look bent and straight when seen in water and out of it, and also both concave and convex, due to the sight's being mislead by the colors, and every sort of confusion of this kind is plainly in our soul. And, then, it is because they take advantage of this affection in our nature that shadow painting, and puppeteering, and many other tricks of the kind fall nothing short of wizardry.

In the adverts, I look like I do because 150 people have spent seven hours making me look dazzling. That's not me at all.

I might work on a painting for a month, but it has too look like I painted it in a minute.

I always mistrust everything I see, which an image shows me, because I imagine what is beyond it. And what is beyond an image cannot be known.

Fashion pictures show people looking glamorous. Travel pictures show a place looking at its best, nothing to do with the reality. In the cookery pages, the food always looks amazing, right? Most of the pictures we consume are propaganda.

Photographs supplant and corrupt the past, all the while creating their own memories.

The art of illusion is grace itself.

As a cameraman, I am interested in images and truth. Today, people are conditioned to accept lies if they are commercial lies. What we don't see anymore is ethics.

When you have to react to a lizard that's a tennis ball, it's a really, really difficult, tricky piece of craft.