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Quotes About Imagination

The world needs fantasy, not reality. We have enough reality today
~ Alexander McQueen
The creative writer does the same as the child at play; he creates a world of fantasy which he takes very seriously.
~ Sigmund Freud
I like nonsense, it wakes up the brain cells. Fantasy is a necessary ingredient in living.
~ Dr. Seuss
A painting requires a little mystery, some vagueness, and some fantasy. When you always make your meaning perfectly plain you end up boring people.
~ Edgar Degas
Fantasy is escapist, and that is its glory. If a soldier is imprisoned by the enemy, don't we consider it his duty to escape?
~ J. R. R. Tolkien
The eye and fantasy feel more attracted by nebulous distance than by that which is close and distinct in front of us.
~ Caspar David Friedrich
I believe fantasy and dreaming can be made a reality. You don't have to be rich. You don't have to be a VIP.
~ Rachel Zoe
One of the things that Teller and I are obsessed with, one of the reasons that we're in magic, is the difference between fantasy and reality.
~ Penn Jillette
Fairy tales since the beginning of recorded time, and perhaps earlier, have been "a means to conquer the terrors of mankind through metaphor.
~ Unknown
And it is through fantasy that children achieve catharsis. It is the best means they have for taming wild things.
~ Maurice Sendak
Although it is a fantasy film, it's as real as it can be. You have to imagine that an audience will buy their ticket to a cinema and get on a first-class flight and journey to Middle Earth.
~ Orlando Bloom
EVERYTHING IN LIFE IS A FANTASY UNTIL YOU CHOOSE TO MAKE IT A REALITY.
~ Rob Dyrdek
I come from musical theater, and a lot of musical theater is about accepting fantasy. I think it is more about just being open and accepting.
~ Amy Adams
The fantasy of a man is the best weapon of a woman.
~ Sophia Loren
A reader lives a thousand lives before he dies.
~ George R. R. Martin
You have to hold onto your fantasy.
~ Betsey Johnson
Children do live in fantasy and reality; they move back and forth very easily in a way we no longer remember how to do.
~ Maurice Sendak
I will start out this evening with an assertion: fantasy is a place where it rains.
~ Italo Calvino
The dream of reason produces monsters
~ Francisco Goya
Fantasy abandoned by reason produces impossible monsters
~ Francisco Goya
Here you leave today and enter the world of yesterday, tomorrow, and fantasy.
~ Walt Disney Company
I have too many fantasies to be a housewife. I guess I am a fantasy.
~ Marilyn Monroe
Because nothing is as good as you can imagine it. No one is as beautiful as she is in your head. Nothing is as exciting as your fantasy.
~ Chuck Palahniuk
About half my designs are controlled fantasy, 15 percent are total madness and the rest are bread-and-butter designs.
~ Manolo Blahnik