Quotes About Imagination

This is going to take a while. I'm a fantasy author. We have trouble with the concept of brevity.

We don't create a fantasy world to escape reality. We create it to be able to stay.

The best fantasy is written in the language of dreams. It is alive as dreams are alive, more real than real, for a moment at least, that long magic moment before we wake.

It's an amazing thing to be able to fall into the world of your childhood fantasy.

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

Fantasy is like jam. . . . You have to spread it on a solid piece of bread. If not, it remains a shapeless thing . . . out of which you can't make anything.

We need fantasy to survive because reality is too difficult.

The poet is in command of his fantasy, while it is exactly the mark of the neurotic that he is possessed by his fantasy.

There's a strange quality in stop-motion photography, like in King Kong, that adds to the fantasy. If you make things too real, sometimes you bring it down to the mundane.

Well, luckily with animation, fantasy is your friend.

What a thing of fantasy a woman may become after dusk.

First, inevitably, the idea, the fantasy, the fairy tale. Then, scientific calculation. Ultimately, fulfillment crowns the dream.

I had read tons of science fiction. I was fascinated by other worlds, other environments. For me, it was fantasy, but it was not fantasy in the sense of pure escapism.

The more we see the more we must be able to imagine, and the more we imagine, the more we must think we see.

In visual futurism, the line between total fantasy and futuristic is a thread of reality.

Fashion is such a fairytale and it is such a fantasy. And it's about metamorphosis and sort of changing yourself and playing a part that you want people to see.

What is admirable about the fantastic is that there is no longer anything fantastic: there is only the real.

I am determined and ready to be a commodity that fulfills everyone's fantasies.

Fantasy, at its best, is balm for the soul. But it is faulty logic to assume that balm is necessarily mind-numbing anesthesia.

Every island to a child is a treasure island.

The artist is the medium between his fantasies and the rest of the world.

I do remember, as a child, that I always imagined, when I was maybe 6 or 7, my fantasy was that everywhere I went I was being followed by an invisible film crew.

Modeling is about fantasy, getting people to buy into a lifestyle and a vision.

In a stagnant environment the body-mind creates its own adversity – disease and fantasy.