Fantasy Quotes - page 4

Fantasy love is much better than reality love. Never doing it is very exciting. The most exciting attractions are between two opposites that never meet. (Andy Warhol)
Fantasy love is much better than reality love. View quote
Andy Warhol
New things always have to experience difficulties and setbacks as they grow. It is sheer fantasy to imagine that the cause of socialism is all plain sailing and easy success, without difficulties and setbacks or the exertion of tremendous efforts. View quote
Mao Zedong
I never think about genre when I work. I've written fantasy, science fiction, supernatural fiction, and am now working on a suspense novel. Genres are mostly useful as a marketing tool, and to help booksellers known where to shelve a book. View quote
Elizabeth Hand
Mervyn Peake is a finer poet than Edgar Allan Poe, and he is therefore able to maintain his world of fantasy brilliantly through three novels. It (Gormenghast trilogy) is a very, very great work ... a classic of our age. View quote
Mervyn Peake
Fantasy mirrors desire. Imagination reshapes it. View quote
Mason Cooley
Every age has its peculiar folly: Some scheme, project, or fantasy into which it plunges, spurred on by the love of gain, the necessity of excitement, or the force of imitation. View quote
Charles Mackay
The school was nothing but reminiscence - of an Italian hill town, a French abbey, an English academy, the different sources improbably but convincingly melded into a fantasy about the classic sites of Europe as imagined by exiles from cold peripheral lands, nostalgia about somebody else's past. View quote
Edmund White
Why should the composer be more guilty than the poet who warms to fantasy by a strange flame, making an idea that inspires him the subject of his own very different treatment? View quote
Franz Schubert
I'm planning, you see, to try to confine myself to the truth. That's hard for an old, inveterate fantasy martyr and [illegible] liar who has never hesitated to give truth the form he felt the occasion demanded. View quote
Ingmar Bergman
Fantasy is often better than reality. It's much more inspiring not to go to places than to go. (Karl Lagerfeld)
Real love is the love that sometimes arises after sensual pleasure: if it does, it is immortal; the other kind inevitably goes stale, for it lies in mere fantasy. View quote
Giacomo Casanova
Disneyland is often called a magic kingdom because it combines fantasy and history, adventure and learning, together with every variety of recreation and fun designed to appeal to everyone. View quote
Walt Disney
When we do fantasy, we must not lose sight of reality. View quote
Walt Disney
All cartoon characters and fables must be exaggeration, caricatures. It is the very nature of fantasy and fable. View quote
Walt Disney
Fantasy remains a human right: we make in our measure and in our derivative mode, because we are made: and not only made, but made in the image and likeness of a Maker. View quote
J. R. R. Tolkien
I can imagine no man who will look with more horror on the End than a conscientious revolutionary who has, in a sense sincerely, been justifying cruelties and injustices inflicted on millions of his contemporaries by the benefits which he hopes to confer on future generations: generations who, as one terrible moment now reveals to him, were never going to exist. Then he will see the massacres, the faked trials, the deportations, to be all ineffaceably real, an essential part, his part, in the drama that has just ended: while the future Utopia had never been anything but a fantasy. View quote
C. S. Lewis
It takes a lot of intellect to be able to convince people to believe in fantasy – but people don't seem to be able to recognize that. View quote
Shahrukh Khan
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. View quote
Peter Wessel Zapffe
I like working closely with artists. I think that's very important in fantasy and science fiction - the visual aspect of the worlds and the characters. View quote
Margaret Weis
Even in my revenge fantasy where all I do is exercise, I can still do only twenty-five pull-ups. Pull-ups are tough, no joke. (Mindy Kaling)
If it weren't for my imagination, I would weigh ten thousand pounds. This is because the only way I am able to exercise anymore is through a long and vivid revenge fantasy. View quote
Mindy Kaling
Ever since the Beatles, the concept of lovable mop tops, it's a bit of a fantasy, but it's a lovely idea that people make wonderful music and live a wonderful life being friends together. Sadly, life isn't quite like that. View quote
Nick Mason
I don't write fantasy; I write historical novels about an imaginary place. View quote
Raymond E. Feist
I like science fiction, I like fantasy, I like time travel, so I had this idea: What if you had a phone that could call into the past? View quote
Rainbow Rowell