Quotes about Fantastic

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Finding a great idea is a magical thing and a fantastic job. — Debasish Mridha
A serious adult story must be true to something in life. Since marvel tales cannot be true to the events of life, they m — H.P. Lovecraft
An admirable line of Pablo Neruda’s, “My creatures are born of a long denial,” seems to me the best definition of writin — Julio Cortázar, Around the Day in Eighty Worlds
Skill alone cannot teach or produce a great short story, which condenses the obsession of the creature; it is a hallucin — Julio Cortázar, Around the Day in Eighty Worlds
There are... otherwise quite decent people who are so dull of nature that they believe that they must attribute the swif — E.T.A. Hoffmann, Die Serapions Brüder: Gesammelte Erzählungen Und Märchen In Vier Bänden
But if what interests you are stories of the fantastic, I must warn you that this kind of story demands more art and jud — Charles Nodier
Theatres are curious places, magician's trick-boxes where the golden memories of dramtic triumphs linger like nostalgic — E.A. Bucchianeri, Brushstrokes of a Gadfly
You see that girl, she looks so happy right? But inside she's dying. She's hurt and tired. Tired of all the drama, tired — Jayne Higgins, Exactly 23 Days
The imaginary is not formed in opposition to reality as its denial or compensation; it grows among signs, from book to b — Michel Foucault
Let us depart instead for the fields of Dreams and wander those blue, romantic hills where stands the abandoned tower of — Eça de Queirós, The Mandarin and Other Stories
Fantastic ideas often come from fantasy. — Debasish Mridha
When we are no longer children we are already dead — Constantin Brancusi
In the great glasshouses streaming with condensation, the children in mourning-dress beheld marvels. — Arthur Rimbaud
Language is something you inherit, it's never just you doing the talking, which helps when you're pretending. — Cees Nooteboom
Children seem to need, then, a delicate balance between the realistic and the fantastic in their art; enough of the real — Eric S. Rabkin, Fantastic Worlds: Myths, Tales, and Stories
What is admirable about the fantastic is that there is no longer anything fantastic: there is only the real. — André Breton
Surrealism, then, neither aims to subvert realism, as does the fantastic, nor does it try to transcend it. It looks for — Michael Richardson, Dedalus Book of Surrealism 2: The Myth of the World
Anyone who still wants to experience fairytales these days can’t afford to dither when it comes to using their brains. — Robert Musil
The fantastic breaks the crust of appearance … something grabs us by the shoulders to throw us outside ourselves. I have — Julio Cortázar, Around the Day in Eighty Worlds
The fantastic cannot exist independently of that 'real' world which it seems to find frustratingly finite. — Rosemary Jackson, Fantasy: The Literature of Subversion