“The gift of fantasy has meant more to me than my talent for absorbing positive knowledge.”
Albert Einstein
“When I examine myself and my methods of thought, I come to the conclusion that the gift of fantasy has meant more to me than any talent for abstract, positive thinking.”
“Fantasies are more than substitutes for unpleasant reality; they are also dress rehearsals, plans. All acts performed in the world begin in the imagination.”
Barbara Grizzuti Harrison
“Fantasy, abandoned by reason, produces impossible monsters; united with it, she is the mother of the arts and the origin of marvels.”
Goya
“But fantasy kills imagination, pornography is death to art.”
Iris Murdoch
“One supreme fact which I have discovered is that it is not willpower, but fantasy-imagination that creates. Imagination is the creative force. Imagination creates reality.”
Richard Wagner
“Women's sexual appetites are steeped more in the realm of fantasy -- they like to use their imagination more than men.”
Assia Tschernookoff