Art uniquely reflects our conflicting attraction to and fear of illusions. It strives to reconcile our dueling convictions that, on the one hand, only what we perceive is real; and that, on the other, what we perceive is nothing more than the most realistic of illusions. If that’s so, wouldn’t it be nice if we at least got to choose our illusions? But it doesn’t seem to work that way. Instead, its seems, our illusions choose us.
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“Dream delivers us to dream, and there is no end to illusion. Life is like a train of moods like a string of beads, and as we pass through them they prove to be many-colored lenses which paint the world their own hue.” ~Ralph Waldo Emerson
“Why are there so many songs about rainbows
And what’s on the other side?
Rainbows are visions, but only illusions,
And rainbows have nothing to hide.”
~Paul Williams and Kenneth Ascher
“Illusion is Reality’s coy lover who cheers him when he is grim. Illusion is cunning to his wisdom of ages, sweet oblivion to his knowledge.” ~Kresley Cole
“I’ve looked at life from both sides now,
From win and lose and still somehow
It’s life’s illusions I recall.
I really don’t know life at all.”
~Joni Mitchell
For people like us who believe in physics, the separation between past, present and future has only the importance of an admittedly tenacious illusion.” ~Albert Einstein
“God, listen to the absurdity within us and raise us from the illusion!” ~Sorin Cerin
“And so, let us not fix our eyes what we can see, but on what we cannot see. For that which we can see is temporary, but that which we cannot see is eternal.”
~2 Corinthians 4:18
Mitch Teemley 
I love these photos!
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SO LOVE THIS MITCH!
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Yikes! These should come with a headache warning. 😉
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;>)
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These pics are awesome 👏
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Amazing works of art / illusions!!
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So clever and fun! What I marvel at most are the creative minds that invent such images!
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Absolutely amazing. These people have gifts I can’t even fathom. Thanks for collecting them and sharing them with us!
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My pleasure, as always, Russ!
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Thanks for sharing these thought provoking images! Be well, stay healthy.
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You too, Jorge!
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Wow these pictures are really good and quite thought provoking. It certainly made me think a bit! Thanks for sharing 🙂
Feel free to read some of my blogs 🙂
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OK, Niraj!
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It’s not the light at the end of the tunnel that’s the illusion
It’s the tunnel.
Liam 😂✔️
Nice post, thanks, loved the art work!
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Inspirational Poetry: White Rabbit
by Liam
Reality, where have you taken me?
Or is this an illusion an illustration painted across the canvas of my cognition
Reality is wherever
Reality is whoever
Reality is whatever
We want it to be
So be cautious with your choices
So be careful with your thoughts
For these are the truths you will live
These are the realities you will create
For the mind is impartially omnipotent
To liberate , as created
To incarcerate , as created
The question waiting to be answered
Is
Who creates the question?
You
Me
Wait , be patient follow the white rabbit
And see.
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Great images. I love those illusions!
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Nicely presented. Lots o fun to think about.
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Amazing and awesome!
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Fascinating, as usual.
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Very neat pictures!
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We are certainly living in surreal times.
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We are indeed, Liz.
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Looks like an eye
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I love these! So fun!
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Interesting pictures. I enjoyed viewing them
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I love this!
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