Quotes on Fantasy

Reverie is the groundwork of creative imagination; it is the privilege of the artist that with him it is not as with other men an escape from reality, but the means by which he accedes to it.

Repentance is but a denying of our will, and an opposition of our fantasies.

During the youthful period of mankind's spiritual evolution human fantasy created gods in man's own image, who, by the operations of their will were supposed to determine, or at any rate to influence, the phenomenal world. Man sought to alter the disposition of these gods in his own favour by means of magic and prayer.

There is a part of me that has to depend on fantasy, because if you can't be somewhat of a fantasy person, then you can't write

And it is through fantasy that children achieve catharsis. It is the best means they have for taming Wild Things.

Children do live in fantasy and reality; they move back and forth very easily in a way we no longer remember how to do.

A reader lives a thousand lives before he dies.

All novels are fantasies. Some are more honest about it.

...Every single one of us goes through life depending on and bound by our individual knowledge and awareness. And we call it reality. However, both knowledge and awareness are equivocal. One's reality might be another's illusion. We all live inside our own fantasies, don't you think?

Heard melodies are sweet, but those unheard are sweeter.

The greatest challenge facing mankind is the challenge of distinguishing reality from fantasy, truth from propaganda. Perceiving the truth has always been a challenge to mankind, but in the information age (or as I think of it, the disinformation age) it takes on a special urgency and importance.

The problem with most genre fantasy is that it's not nearly fantastic enough. It's escapist, but it can't escape.

Things were going very fast now. Too fast to suit him. Fantasy and reality had merged.

Without this playing with fantasy no creative work has ever yet come to birth. The debt we owe to the play of the imagination is incalculable.

All the works of man have their origin in creative fantasy. What right have we then to depreciate imagination.

Acting is not about anything romantic, not even fantasy, although you do create fantasy.

Dear, I can't write, it's all a fantasy: a kind of circling obsession.

I suppose each of us has his own fantasy of how he wants to die. I would like to go out in a blaze of glory, myself, or maybe simply disappear someday, far out in the heart of the wilderness I love, all by myself, alone with the Universe and whatever God may happen to be looking on. Disappear - and never return. That's my fantasy.

Often a cold shudder has run through me, and I have asked myself whether I may have not devoted myself to a fantasy.

India, the new myth--a collective fiction in which anything was possible, a fable rivalled only by the two other mighty fantasies: money and God.

I get so tired of people saying, 'Oh, you only make fantasy films and this and that', and I'm like, 'Well no, fantasy is reality', that's what Lewis Carroll showed in his work.