Fantasy Quotes

I like nonsense, it wakes up the brain cells. Fantasy is a necessary ingredient in living, it's a way of looking at life through the wrong end of a telescope. Which is what I do, and that enables you to laugh at life's realities.
Dr. Seuss

Life, End, Laugh

The gift of fantasy has meant more to me than my talent for absorbing positive knowledge.
Albert Einstein

Positive, Knowledge, Talent

I have too many fantasies to be a housewife. I guess I am a fantasy.
Marilyn Monroe

Guess, Housewife, Fantasies

If one is lucky, a solitary fantasy can totally transform one million realities.
Maya Angelou

Lucky, Million, Solitary

Say there's a white kid who lives in a nice home, goes to an all-white school, and is pretty much having everything handed to him on a platter - for him to pick up a rap tape is incredible to me, because what that's saying is that he's living a fantasy life of rebellion.
Eminem

Life, Home, Nice

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

Love, Reality, Two

In black neighborhoods, everybody appreciated comedy about real life. In the white community, fantasy was funnier. I started looking for the jokes that were equally hilarious across the board, for totally different reasons.
Will Smith

Life, Real, Black

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

Creative, Works, Origin

All cartoon characters and fables must be exaggeration, caricatures. It is the very nature of fantasy and fable.
Walt Disney

Nature, Characters, Cartoon

To be matter-of-fact about the world is to blunder into fantasy - and dull fantasy at that, as the real world is strange and wonderful.
Robert A. Heinlein

Real, Strange, Wonderful

In my sex fantasy, nobody ever loves me for my mind.
Nora Ephron

Sex, Mind, Nobody

Most of my short stories are fantasy.
Ray Bradbury

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.
Carl Jung

Work, Play, Creative

Maybe every other American movie shouldn't be based on a comic book. Other countries will think Americans live in an infantile fantasy land where reality is whatever we say it is and every problem can be solved with violence.
Bill Maher

Live, Reality, Book

Those Dutchmen had hardly any imagination or fantasy, but their good taste and their scientific knowledge of composition were enormous.
Vincent Van Gogh

Good, Knowledge, Scientific

Fantasy is an exercise bicycle for the mind. It might not take you anywhere, but it tones up the muscles that can. Of course, I could be wrong.
Terry Pratchett

Mind, Wrong, Might

Ambition is not what a man would do, but what a man does, for ambition without action is fantasy.
Bryant H. McGill

Ambition, Action

Vampires are sexy to a woman perhaps because the fantasy is similar to that of the man on the white horse sweeping her off to paradise.
Frank Langella

Sexy, Woman, Her

I'm half living my life between reality and fantasy at all times.
Lady Gaga

Life, Reality, Living

Fantasy mirrors desire. Imagination reshapes it.
Mason Cooley

Desire, Mirrors

All fantasy should have a solid base in reality.
Max Beerbohm

Reality, Solid, Base

Well, luckily with animation, fantasy is your friend.
Steven Spielberg

Friend, Animation, Luckily

Dreams are not without meaning wherever thay may come from-from fantasy, from the elements, or from other inspiration.
Paracelsus

Dreams, May, Meaning

I don't read 'chick lit,' fantasy or science fiction but I'll give any book a chance if it's lying there and I've got half an hour to kill.
J. K. Rowling

Science, Book, Give

The thing about fantasy - there are certain things you just don't do in fantasy.
J. K. Rowling

I have a fantasy where Ted Turner is elected President but refuses because he doesn't want to give up power.
Arthur C. Clarke

Power, Give, President

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.
Giacomo Casanova

Love, Real, After

The blurring of fantasy and reality is something that the Japanese herald in their life, in their day-to-day commercialism.
Lady Gaga

Life, Reality, Japanese

All of Koons's best art - the encased vacuum cleaners, the stainless-steel Rabbit (the late-twentieth century's signature work of Simulationist sculpture), the amazing gleaming Balloon Dog, and the cast-iron re-creation of a Civil War mortar exhibited last month at the Armory - has simultaneously flaunted extreme realism, idealism, and fantasy.
Jerry Saltz

Work, Best, War

Too many younger artists, critics, and curators are fetishizing the sixties, transforming the period into a deformed cult, a fantasy religion, a hip brand, and a crippling disease.
Jerry Saltz

Religion, Artists, Period

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