Karl Pilkington Quotes

The longer you look at an object, the more abstract it becomes, and, ironically, the more real.

Sometimes the ignorant are among the most educated.

Comes a Time when the blind man takes your hand says DON'T YOU SEE?

They consider me to have sharp and penetrating vision because I see them through the mesh of a sieve.

The opposite of a correct statement is a false statement. But the opposite of a profound truth may well be another profound truth.

The words of truth are always paradoxical.

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

All the truth in the world adds up to one big lie.

Imagination is the eye of the soul.

I shut my eyes in order to see.

The paradox of reality is that no image is as compelling as the one which exists only in the mind's eye.

But optics sharp it needs, I ween, To see what is not to be seen.

Love works a different way in different minds, the fool it enlightens and the wise it blinds.

The painting is not on a surface, but on a plane which is imagined. It moves in a mind. It is not there physically at all. It is an illusion, a piece of magic, so that what you see is not what you see.

Every closed eye is not sleeping, and every open eye is not seeing.

In complete darkness we are all the same, it is only our knowledge and wisdom that separates us, don't let your eyes deceive you.

Imagination is a very potent thing, and in the uneducated often usurps the place of genuine experience.

In my business, my job is to make people believe they are seeing something they're not seeing.

Imagination is a funny thing - we sometimes need to see something before we can truly picture it.

Nothing is so obvious that it's obvious.

We are led to believe a lie When we see not through the eye.

The ultimate truth is penultimately a falsehood.

One of the greatest enemies to vision is sight!

Just as a wise man can say something foolish, a fool can say something wise.