Aaron Hill Quotes

Sometimes my art is just an illusion - or is it?

Art at its greatest is fantastically deceitful and complex.

Funny, now I can see, how looks can be deceiving.

Art is the most beautiful deception of all!

Painting is an illusion, a piece of magic, so what you see is not what you see.

Art lies by its own artifice.

Art is magic delivered from the lie of being truth.

What is called a sincere work is one that is endowed with enough strength to give reality to an illusion.

Art is the most beautiful deception of all. And although people try to incorporate the everyday events of life in it, we must hope that it will remain a deception lest it become a utilitarian thing, sad as a factory.

The art of pleasing is the art of deception.

Art is the most beautiful of all lies.

Of all lies, art is the least untrue.

You know what ART stands for? Above Real Truth.

The senses do not deceive us, but the judgment does.

Illusion and wisdom combined are the charm of life and art.

Art is a never-ending dance of illusions.

The world is a lie...not you and me.

The picture that looks as if it were done without an effort may have been a perfect battlefield in its making.

A painter will paint a cobbler, carpenter, or any other artist, though he knows nothing of their arts; and, if he is a good artist, he may deceive children or simple persons, when he shows them his picture of a carpenter from a distance, and they will fancy that they are looking at a real carpenter.

I try to conceal art with art.

Art is as heavy as sorrow, as light as a breeze, as bright as an idea, as pretty as a picture, as funny as money, and as fugitive as fraud!

Illusion - or rather appearance, semblance - is the theme of my life (could be theme of speech welcoming freshmen to the Academy). All that is, seems, and is visible to us because we perceive it by the reflected light of semblance. Nothing else is visible.

Imagination is a powerful deceiver.

Lying, the telling of beautiful untrue things, is the proper aim of Art.

Looks can be deceiving.