Larry Bishop Quotes

Image is what people perceive my life to be. It's nothing like the truth.

Everything's fine today, that is our illusion.

Sometimes what we see, what's going on in front of us, isn't really what's happening.

Now it's clear to me/ that everything you see/ ain't always what it seems.

Please remember: things are not what they seem.

I realize that nothing's as it seems.

Appearances are a glimpse of the unseen.

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

What lies behind appearance is usually another appearance.

It seems to me that there are two kinds of trickery: the 'fronts' people assume before one another's eyes, and the 'front' a writer puts on the face of reality.

I can tell you all kinds of moral tales, but fashion and reality are vaguely different.

I have the terrible feeling that, because I am wearing a white beard and am sitting in the back of the theatre, you expect me to tell you the truth about something. These are the cheap seats, not Mount Sinai.

Everything you see is not always real.

If we knew the truth, we'd see it; all else is system and outskirts.

Things are not at all what they seem to be: oh no, not at all.

Don't let appearances fool you. There's always only one reality!

How foolish of me to believe that it would be that easy. I had confused the appearance of trees and automobiles, and people with a reality itself, and believed that a photograph of these appearances to be a photograph of it. It is a melancholy truth that I will never be able to photograph it and can only fail. I am a reflection photographing other reflections within a reflection. To photograph reality is to photograph nothing.

It’s like, everything really is two ways, the way we all pretend it is and the way it really is

In Shakespeare's world, characters cannot trust their senses. Is the ghost in Hamlet true and truthful, or is it a demon, tempting young Hamlet into murderous sin? Is Juliet dead or merely sleeping? Does Lear really stand at the edge of a great cliff? Or has the Fool deceived him to save his life?

Truth, like light, blinds. Falsehood, on the contrary, is a beautiful twilight that enhances every object.

Success has always been a great liar.

There is nothing more deceptive than an obvious fact.

Reality seems so simple. We just open our eyes and there it is. But that doesn't mean it is simple.

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

Dandyism is a lie which reveals the truth, and the truth is that we are what we pretend to be.