Fantasy Quotes

There have been many different artists that have been inspirational. I suppose the question is directed to what was the reason why I went into fantasy illustration.

~ Boris Vallejo

Glamour is an imaginative process that creates a specific emotional response: a sharp mixture of projection, longing, admiration, and aspiration. It evokes an audience's hopes and dreams and makes them seem attainable, all the while maintaining enough distance to sustain the fantasy.

~ Virginia Postrel

Horror, for me, has to involve some sort of fantasy. Horror is something that is in your dreams or your nightmares.

~ Cassandra Peterson

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

~ Paracelsus

For me, the sketching of dresses was about fantasy and dreams. In my little room at home, I felt that I was somewhere else. In Paris, for instance.

~ Alber Elbaz

Literature for me isn't a workaday job, but something which involves desires, dreams and fantasy.

~ Antonio Tabucchi

Our records, if you have a dark sense of humor, were funny, but our records weren't about comedy. They were about protests, fantasy, confrontation and all that.

~ Ice Cube

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.

~ Rob Zombie

When you're 14, anything with a sword and a dragon is pretty cool. But when you're 21 and you've read 2,000 fantasy novels, you start to realize that some of those books, well, they weren't really good. OK, let's be honest. A lot of them were crap.

~ Patrick Rothfuss

I think sex is very interesting for most people, but I'm interested in sex as a way of communication, I'm not that interested in the fantasy version of a sex scene.

~ Maggie Gyllenhaal

The 2006 federal Internet gaming statute is not ambiguous. It does not prohibit gambling on fantasy sports.

~ Eric Schneiderman

Daily fantasy sports is neither victimless nor harmless, and it is clear that DraftKings and FanDuel are the leaders of a massive, multi-billion-dollar scheme intended to evade the law and fleece sports fans across the country.

~ Eric Schneiderman

Daily fantasy sports is much closer to online poker than it is to traditional fantasy sports.

~ Eric Schneiderman

I'm always astonished by a forest. It makes me realise that the fantasy of nature is much larger than my own fantasy. I still have things to learn.

~ Günter Grass

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

~ Walt Disney

When a fantasy turns you on, you're obligated to God and nature to start doing it - right away.

~ Stewart Brand

Yes - 90% of fantasy is crap. And so is 90% of science fiction and 90% of mystery fiction and 90% of literary fiction.

~ George R. R. Martin

The poet does not fear death, not because he believes in the fantasy of heroes, but because death constantly visits his thoughts and is thus an image of a serene dialogue.

~ Salvatore Quasimodo

Artificial Intelligence leaves no doubt that it wants its audiences to enter a realm of pure fantasy when it identifies one of the last remaining islands of civilization as New Jersey.

~ Godfried Danneels

The idea that women are innately gentle is a fantasy, and a historically recent one. Kali, the Hindu goddess of destruction, is depicted as wreathed in male human skulls; the cruel entertainments of the Romans drew audiences as female as they were male; Boudicca led her British troops bloodily into battle.

~ Naomi Wolf

Over the years, more than one reviewer has described my fantasy series, 'A Song of Ice and Fire', as historical fiction about history that never happened, flavoured with a dash of sorcery and spiced with dragons. I take that as a compliment.

~ George R. R. Martin

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

~ Arthur C. Clarke

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

If the arts are held up solely as a means of social insight, fantasy is denied the chance to be commonplace and reality the chance to be exotic.

~ Richard Eyre

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

~ Vincent Van Gogh

We must not be misled by left-wing incompetent news media that, day after day, feed us a diet of fantasy telling us we are bigots, racists and hate-mongers.

~ George Wallace

When I was in my early to mid-teens, that was a very heavy diet of science fiction and fantasy, so those were the kinds of books I tended to imagine writing someday, or even began to try to write.

~ Michael Chabon

It wasn't until I saw James Dean that I began to think that maybe I could actually do this. Movies didn't have to be just this fantasy with this impossibly handsome guy.

~ Terence Stamp

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

~ Manolo Blahnik

Fantasy mirrors desire. Imagination reshapes it.

~ Mason Cooley

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

~ Carl Jung

I don't feel there's any reason to apologise for having a wicked imagination. I think it's important as a maker of fantasy and of horror.

~ Clive Barker

'Castle' is a guy living in a fantasy world. He's in his imagination, writing these stories of murder.

~ Nathan Fillion

Some of us are interested in directors, but really the vast majority of us are interested in actors. You experience the films through the actors, so they're all locked into your imagination in some kind of layer of fantasy or hatred or wherever they settle into your imagination.

~ Danny Boyle

You experience the films through the actors, so they're all locked into your imagination in some kind of layer of fantasy or hatred or wherever they settle into your imagination.

~ Danny Boyle

The sad thing is that, for many writers of fantasy fiction, the inclusion of magic seems to mean that logical ramifications and real-world laws both go out the window.

~ Jane Lindskold

When I was 12, I was living in Iowa, and I emailed so many wrestling schools, and one of them was actually in Boston. I joined it at 18 - the New England Pro Wrestling Academy. They were doing a fantasy camp. I was 17 about to turn 18. I told my mom, 'I'm 18 now. I just signed these papers by myself, and I'm going to do this.'

~ Sasha Banks

Consensus wisdom has it that all modern commercial fantasy novels fall into two camps: those derived from J.R.R. Tolkien and those derived from Mervyn Peake. The 'Lord of the Rings' template or the 'Gormenghast' mold.

~ Paul Di Filippo

Any romantic feelings for a 12-year-old are like entering into a fantasy world.

~ Wes Anderson

Is that romantic fantasy real? Um, after kids, no. Take the kids away, I don't know. Depends.

~ Robin Wright