“The interesting thing is what happens in the specific picture: its precision in terms of the sensations it produces — the illusion it creates and the effect of this illusion on the psychology opposed to it.”
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Context: The interesting thing is what happens in the specific picture: its precision in terms of the sensations it produces — the illusion it creates and the effect of this illusion on the psychology opposed to it. General philosophical and technical information however interesting in itself is secondary to this reality.
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'Search for the Real in the Visual Arts', p. 44
Search for the Real and Other Essays (1948)

“All spiritual practices are illusions created by illusionists to escape illusion.”

Source: https://theosophy.world/sites/default/files/ebooks/Annie%20Besant-In-The-Outer-Court.pdf In the Outer Court, 1895, p. 57

"An interview with James Baldwin" (1961), in Conversations with James Baldwin, p. 21

Source: Attributed in posthumous publications, Einstein's God (1997), p. 89

“Progress is not an illusion; it happens, but it is slow and invariably disappointing.”