Fantasy Quotes - Page 37

• A common obstruction to a vital intimate relationship is what I call the assumption of clairvoyance. You imagine, perhaps unconsciously, that your partner or friend is somehow magically psychic when it comes to you -\-\ so much so that he or she should unfailingly intuit exactly what you need, even if you don't ask for it.
  This fantasy may seem romantic, but it can undermine the most promising alliances.
  To counteract any tendencies you might have to indulge in the assumption of clairvoyance, practice stating your desires aloud.

  Rob Brezsny

  Intimate Relationships, Psychics, Practice

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• Journalism, like history, has no therapeutic value; it is better able to diagnose than to cure, and it provides society with a primitive means of psychoanalysis that allows the patient to judge the distance between fantasy and reality.

  Bill Vaughan

  Distance, Mean, Reality

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• I am not a science fiction writer. I am a fantasy writer. But the label got put on me and stuck.

  Ray Bradbury

  Labels, Fiction, Stuck

  Roosevelt Intermediate School, Westfield, NJ #3 Interview, lists.topica.com. March 23, 2005.

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• Angela Carter, Leonora Carrington, even nonsurrealists like Kafka and Nabokov - writers like these, who create paths between the firmly grounded and flights of fantasy, are my personal North Star.

  Jeff VanderMeer

  Stars, Path, Flight

  Source: www.barnesandnoble.com

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• In life you can get a feeling which is part of a person, the same as in the songs. Music is almost our representation of our fantasies and so our songs are representations of our fantasies.

  Steve Winwood

  Song, Feelings, Music Is

  Source: www.rollingstone.com

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• Art as a fantasy has been one of my earliest experiences. I suppose a lot of my childhood was a fantasy that involved getting away from things I didn't like. Fortunately it had some relationship to reality so that later I was able to, to some extent, act as I imagined I might.

  Jasper Johns

  Art, Reality, Childhood

  "New Again: Jasper Johns". Interview with Philip Smith, www.interviewmagazine.com. June 9, 2015.

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• I was always fascinated by fairy stories, fantasy, you know, demons, necromancers, gods and goddesses, everything that is out of our kin and out of our everyday world. I was always interested in enchantment and magicians and still am.

  Christopher Lee

  Fairy Stories, Everyday, Gods And Goddesses

  Source: www.npr.org

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• I like the idea of taking what is essentially a boring, officious job and turning it into something that is a fantasy, to a degree. I suppose there is a juxtaposition involved in that because you do have to be a civil servant but you're doing a tremendously exciting job, or potentially an exciting job, or a glamourous job.

  Guy Ritchie

  Jobs, Ideas, Juxtaposition

  Source: collider.com

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• I do have fantasies of buying a helicopter and a lot of machine guns, but I don't know if I can do that. I'd like to have a lot of weapons, grenades and things. And I want to have a solar energy machine. And I want to have a sunken garden with a glass roof. I guess that's about it for now. I have a few other wants but I can't remember them.

  Debbie Harry

  Garden, Gun, Glasses

  "The Survivors: Debbie Harry". GQ Interview, www.gq.com. November 4, 2011.

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• It's like aversion therapy. You keep doing scenes over and over again with three women in the bed with you, and we had to do them all in one week. Three girls would step out and another three girls would step into the bed. It sounds like a fantasy but by the end of it, I just wanted to go for a hike on my own in the north of England, in the hills. Because it became a sort of "be careful what you wish for" kinda thing.

  Steve Coogan

  Girl, Wish, Bed

  "Q&A: Steve Coogan on Sex, Drugs & Bad Press". Interview with Eric Spitznagel, www.esquire.com. July 9, 2013.

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• The dramatic sufferings of adults and all the cruel fantasies of those of my own age, who seemed abandoned to their own impulses in the midst of so many catastrophes, appeared to inscribe themselves on the walls around me.

  Antoni Tapies

  Wall, Suffering, Age

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• I mean, I don't know anything else that I would try to do, but it's a very frustrating thing to do, because you are trying to take what's a fantasy in your head and make it live through the minds of 200 people.

  Sydney Pollack

  Mean, People, Mind

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• Fantasy is probably the oldest literary device for talking about reality.

  Ursula K. Le Guin

  Reality, Talking, Literary Devices

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• In the Middle Ages, the troubadour poets invented the concept of courtly love--a fantasy love, a noble passion, which was also extra-marital and thus inevitably thwarted, illicit, adulterous. One of the medieval terms for it was amour honestus (honest love). I've always wondered why this passionate ideal--masochistic, spiritual-travelled with such wildfire throughout Europe. My poem, a ghazal, takes up the subject.

  Edward Hirsch

  Spiritual, Passion, Europe

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• At some point, every science fiction and fantasy story must challenge the reader's experience and learning. That's much of the reason why the genre is so open to experimentation and innovation that other genres reject--strangeness is our bread and butter. Spread it thick or slice it thin, it's still our staff of life.

  Orson Scott Card

  Genre Is, Challenges, Innovation

  Orson Scott Card, Terry Brooks (2010). “The Writer's Digest Guide to Science Fiction & Fantasy”, p.21, Writer's Digest Books

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• A rustic setting always suggests fantasy; to suggest science fiction, you need sheet metal and plastic. You need rivets.

  Orson Scott Card

  Needs, Fiction, Plastic

  Orson Scott Card (2001). “How to Write Science Fiction & Fantasy”, p.4, Writer's Digest Books

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• Fantasy is often better than reality. It's much more inspiring not to go to places than to go.

  Karl Lagerfeld

  Reality

  The Guardian, December 12, 2011.

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• The music I desire must be supple enough to adapt itself to the lyrical effusions of the soul and the fantasy of dreams.

  Claude Debussy

  Dream, Soul, Desire

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• Men characterize pornography as something mental because their minds, their thoughts, their dreams, their fantasies, are more real to them than women's bodies or lives; in fact, men have used their social power to characterize a $10-billion-a-year trade in women as fantasy.

  Andrea Dworkin

  Dream, Real, Men

  Andrea Dworkin (1989). “Pornography: men possessing women”, Plume

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• In Bergman's world I represented a sort of intellectual, skeptical, ironic person, rather cold and frustrated. When I went abroad and made films in Italy and other places, I was used in different ways. I was rather often cast as crazy people, maniacs. It was very good for me and it was fun because it is nice to play crazy people if you are not in reality. And I think perhaps that changed how Ingmar saw me. Suddenly I was on the more magical side of his world, playing the people with fantasies, variety, the artists.

  Erland Josephson

  Fun, Crazy, Nice

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• Painters and sculptors under the Nazis often depicted the nude, but they were forbidden to show any bodily imperfections. Their nudes look like pictures in physique magazines: pinups which are both sanctimoniously asexual and (in a technical sense) pornographic, for they have the perfection of a fantasy.

  Susan Sontag

  Perfection, Looks, Magazines

  Susan Sontag (1983). “A Susan Sontag reader”, Vintage

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• Between two fantasy alternatives, that Holbein the Younger had lived long enough to have painted Shakespeare or that a prototype of the camera had been invented early enough to have photographed him, most Bardolators would choose the photograph. This is not just because it would presumably show what Shakespeare really looked like, for even if the photograph were faded, barely legible, a brownish shadow, we would probably still prefer it to another glorious Holbein. Having a photograph of Shakespeare would be like having a nail from the True Cross.

  Susan Sontag

  Two, Long, Shadow

  Susan Sontag (2014). “On Photography”, p.105, Penguin UK

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• While I am sure there are a number of women who secretly wonder whether they are lesbian, most simply have, somewhere, a fantasy about having sex, in a non-defining, non-exclusive way, with other women.

  Nigella Lawson

  Sex, Numbers, Way

  "Sapphism Is More Than Designer-Dykery". www.theguardian.com. December 31, 2000.

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• You always start with a fantasy. Part of the fantasy technique is to visualize something as perfect. Then with the experiments you work back from the fantasy to reality, hacking away at the components.

  Edwin Land

  Reality, Perfect, Technique

  "Proceedings of the American Philosophical Society", (Vol. 146, no. 1, p. 115), March 2002.

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• I think it's probably a bad idea for young boys to see how they're being depicted in men's fantasies. It could get very dark. You could learn how to do things wrong.

  Amanda Seyfried

  Dark, Boys, Men

  Source: www.gq.com

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