William Wordsworth Quotes

Truth, like light is dazzling. By contrast, untruth is a beautiful sunset that enhances everything.

Everything's uglier close up," she said. "Not you," I answered.

In summation, like your beloved pet rock, Twitter is useful only in your imagination.

Photography deals exquisitely with appearances, but nothing is what it appears to be.

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

You can't depend on your eyes when your imagination is out of focus.

I think art is more glorious than life but not more real.

I'm nothing more than what you actually see, but I am also the complete opposite.

She had in mind a different kind of looking person, because his appearance is not at all like mine.

You can't have the word 'fantasy' or 'fantastical' without a contrast. It has to stem from a grounded experience.

Truth is beautiful, without doubt; but so are lies.

What people think when they see me on TV is that they're experiencing me but they're not.

If you met Faith Hill in person, you would think she's absolutely beautiful. And when you take her picture, you will see every flaw that you never saw in person. Those flaws not only become visible but magnified.

Illusion throughout is illusion. There is no end to it, just as there is no end to imagination.

Glories, like glow-worms, afar off shine bright, But looked to near, have neither heat nor light.

More like the real thing,' said the lord Digory softly. - The Last Battle

A mountain seen in the haze of distance must nevertheless look a solid heavy mountain.

Imagination comes from yourself and can deceive you, but vision is a gift from outside yourself - like light striking on your closed eyelids and lifting them to see what's really there.

Strange, isn't it, that no chemical will give a human being the iridescence that illusions have given them? Give me your hat.

Seeing is not believing - it is only seeing.

In a dung heap, even a plastic bead can gleam like a sapphire.

Oftentimes what you see cancels out what you perceive.

A dream is just a nightmare with lipstick.

Ugliness is an illusion, gentlemen. Like beauty. Like color. All depends on the light. The only reality is action.

I am just a dreamer, but you are just a dream