Terry Pratchett Quotes

The false is nothing but an imitation of the true.

In everything truth surpasses the imitation and copy.

The true value of somebody in this town is very hard to determine. It's all smoke and mirrors.

Since the model he so faithfully copies is not going to be hung up next to the picture... it is of no interest whether it is an accurate copy of the model.

The hair is real - it's the head that's a fake.

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

It is easy to be beautiful; it is difficult to appear so.

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.

Being is like pretending.

People understand what art is supposed to look like, and so it's easy to make something that looks like art but isn't - especially in an abstract form.

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

I have always preferred the reflection of the life to life itself.

Very few of us are what we seem.

You need to be real enough to be believable, but you don't necessarily have to be real enough to be real. There is a distinction.

Truth: An ingenious compound of desirability and appearance …

The thrill of acting is making a character real. Modeling is the opposite of real. It's being fake in front of the camera.

It's very rare that people are exactly who they appear to be.

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

I never deal in transformations, for they are not honest, and no respectable sorceress likes to make things appear to be what they are not.

The beginning of all wisdom is to look fixedly on clothes, or even with armed eyesight, till they become transparent.

The shadows of things are greater than themselves; and the more exaggerated the shadow, the more unlike the substance.

Generally, a lot of the things people think are made up are real, a lot of the things people think are real are made up, a lot of the things people think are spontaneous are cleverly faked, and a lot of the things people think are fake are spontaneous.

If there's one thing on this planet you don't look like it's a bunch of good luck walkin around.

You are to draw not reality, but the appearance of reality!

I am not what you see and hear.