Duane Michals Quotes

Truth is always a delusion.

There is nothing more deceptive than an obvious fact.

Things do not pass for what they are, but for what they seem. Most things are judged by their jackets.

Everything is more complicated than it looks to most people.

The great majority of mankind are satisfied with appearances, as though they were realities, and are often more influenced by the things that seem than by those that are.

The truth is the one thing that nobody will believe.

Show is not substance; realities govern wise men.

Illusions are hazardous, and so are disillusions.

Always scorn appearances and you always may.

We suffer primarily not from our vices or our weaknesses, but from our illusions. We are haunted, not by reality, but by those images we have put in their place.

Appearances are a glimpse of the unseen.

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

Artists can color the sky red because they know it's blue. Those of us who aren't artists must color things the way they really are or people might think we're stupid.

I'm not big into images. I'm into reality.

The world we live in is vastly different from the world we think we live in.

How little do they see what is, who frame their hasty judgments upon that which seems.

People say they love truth, but in reality they want to believe that which they love is true.

Every generation lives with illusions.

Truth: An ingenious compound of desirability and appearance …

Everything you see is not always real.

Everything isn't exactly what it seems from the outside.

The 'Raining Gold' video naturally took on one of the messages behind the song, which is you should never assume anything about someone or a situation just because it looks a certain way on the surface.

People want to see the world the way they want to see it, not the way it is.

Fantasies are not always what people think they are.

Perception is not always reality.