Fantasy Quotes

About half my designs are controlled fantasy, 15 percent are total madness and the rest are bread-and-butter designs.

I have a better internal and intuitive understanding of folklore and myth than science and technology, so in that way fantasy is easier.

I love fairytales. I like fantasy a lot, science fiction, I like magic. I like to create magic. I love magic.

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

Because you are the superhero fledgling. I’m just your more attractive sidekick. Oh, and the herd of nerds are your dorky minions.

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

We do have a distorted view of our fantasies in society, but that's because we don't talk about them enough.

There's a tendency to think that young designers only do fantasy fashion, but I'm more interested in making clothes that women can afford.

I love acting, especially if it's a fantasy of some kind, where it's not just realistic, it's not naturalism.

The seed of a metaphysical or religious defeat is in us all. For the honest questioner, however, who doesn't seek refuge in some faith or fantasy, there will never be an answer.

Love and fantasy, go hand in hand.

There was such a difference, he thought, between the beauty that illuminated, and the beauty that was illuminated.

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

Stop setting goals. Goals are pure fantasy unless you have a specific plan to achieve them.

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.

In retrospect, all these exercises in self-gratification seem pure fantasy, what Pascal called, licking the earth.

Growing up, I had the weird fantasy list: I wanted to be Alice Cooper, Steven Spielberg, and Stan Lee. You have to have almost psychotic drive, because you're going to have years of failure.

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.

Our root fantasy is that "I" am real and that it's possible for "me" to be happy.

When I examine myself and my methods of thought, I come to the conclusion that the gift of fantasy has meant more to me than any talent for abstract, positive knowledge.

There are many kinds of joy, but they all lead to one: the joy to be loved.

I envy people that know love. That have someone who takes them as they are.

...only in the surrender of the light could the darkness prevail.

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

We need fantasy to survive because reality is too difficult.

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.

Art can be a kind of therapeutic, or kind of a fantasy life, or wish fulfillment...o r creating this alternate universe. Art gives me the freedom to do that.

Well, luckily with animation, fantasy is your friend.

I associate heavy metal with fantasy because of the tremendous power that the music delivers.

Religion is doing; a man does not merely think his religion or feel it, he 'lives' his religion as much as he is able, otherwise it is not religion but fantasy or philosophy.

A lot of my songs are fantasy. I can dream up all kinds of things. That's the kind of world I live in. It's very sort of flamboyant, and that's the kind of way I write. I love it

Lovers and madmen have such seething brains Such shaping fantasies, that apprehend More than cool reason ever comprehends.

There's more to life than just surviving . . . but . . . sometimes just surviving is all you get

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

Positive self-direction is the action plan that all winners in life use to turn imagination into reality, fantasy into fact, and dreams into actual goals.

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

I can work in films as long as the story doesn't have a realistic nature. If I'm working with an allegory, a fantasy, it can be developed in synthetic terms.

Republicans and nerds have so much in common -- they both live in fantasy worlds and have no idea how to relate to women.

Cambridge was a joy. Tediously. People reading books in a posh place. It was my fantasy. I loved it. I miss it still.

Trust not in Sprites nor the motivations of a Gnome.

When I was your age, television was called books.

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

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.

I think the worst that can happen in filmmaking is if you're working with a storyboard. That kills all intuition, all fantasy, all creativity.

Any idiot, any stockbroker can get out there and live out a fantasy and pretend like he's playing music. And I don't think there's anything wrong with that.

The question is always the same with a dragon: will he talk with you or will he eat you?

The most wonderful and the strongest things in the world, you know, are just the things which no one can see.

I was as unburdened as a piece of dandelion fluff, and he was the wind that stirred me about the world.

Right now, we're living in an ugly chapter of our lives, but books always get better!