It was the French artist Edgar Degas that once said this: “Art is not what you see, but what you make others see.” and each and every week I get to see one very good example of this because I work in Cardiff, Wales right near the barrage which is home to one of the World’s most well know examples of Anamorphosis. These unusual bits of art require the viewer to look at the artwork from a very specific vantage point in order to see the image the artist intended you to see. They are often massive in size, often relatively simple images and if they are the World’s best they are known as…
BONUS CONTENT: Top 10 Best Quotes About Illusions
10 – Yellow Rings
Elizabeth Bowen once said: ”Illusions are art, for the feeling person, and it is by art that we live if we do.”
9 – Black Cylindrical Rings
Luis Palau once said: ”God is not disillusioned with us. He never had any illusions, to begin with.”
8 – 3D City Scape
Daniel J. Boorstin once said: ”We suffer primarily not from our vices or our weaknesses, but from our illusions. We are haunted, not by reality, but by those images we have put in their place.”
7 – Sand Clowns Face
Joseph Conrad once said: ”It is natural to indulge in the illusions of hope. We are apt to shut our eyes to that siren until she allures us to our death.”
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6 – Red Star Burst
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow once said: ”Therefore trust to thy heart, and to what the world calls illusions.”
5 – Orange Ring Vortex
Stendhal once said: ”Friendship has its illusions no less than love.”
4 – Waterfall Pavement drawing
Victor Hugo once said: ”The soul has illusions as the bird has wings: it is supported by them.”
3 – Hidden Building Wall Art
Bob Dylan once said: ”I don’t think the human mind can comprehend the past and the future. They are both just illusions that can manipulate you into thinking there’s some kind of change.”
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2 – Car-park Direction Signs Art
John Lennon once said: ”These critics with the illusions they’ve created about artists – it’s like idol worship. They only like people when they’re on their way up… I cannot be on the way up again.”
1 – Vercorin, Swiss Alps, Switzerland – Artist: Felice Varini
Mark Twain once said: ”Don’t part with your illusions. When they are gone, you may still exist, but you have ceased to live.”
