1. Imagination is everything. It is the preview of life’s coming attractions.-Albert Einstein
2. Fantasy, if it’s really convincing, can’t become dated, for the simple reason that it represents a flight into a dimension that lies beyond the reach of time.-Walt Disney
3. The pleasures of the imagination are as it were only drawings and models which are played with by poor people who cannot afford the real thing.-Georg Christoph Lichtenberg
4. All fantasy should have a solid base in reality.-Max Beerbohm
5. Fiction is an improvement on life.-Charles Bukowski
6. The interesting thing is how one guy, through living out his own fantasies, is living out the fantasies of so many other people.-Hugh Hefner
7. Stories of imagination tend to upset those without one.-Terry Pratchett
8. Fantasy is hardly an escape from reality. It’s a way of understanding it.-Lloyd Alexander
9. I like nonsense, it wakes up the brain cells. Fantasy is a necessary ingredient in living.-Dr. Seuss
10. All truth is very ordinary. It is peoples fantasies of what is true that is so extraordinary.-Brian Perkins
11. Fantasy allows you to get past defenses.-Elizabeth Moon
12. People’s fantasies are what give them problems. If you didn’t have fantasies you wouldn’t have problems because you’d just take whatever was there.-Andy Warhol
13. My single-minded aim is to give existence to fantasy.-Claes Oldenburg
14. Fantasy is one of the soul’s brighter porcelains.-Pat Conroy
15. Open the window of fantasy to know what reality can bring.-Raul D. Arellano
16. We live in a fantasy world, a world of illusion. The great task in life is to find reality.-Iris Murdoch
17. We are lucky that our fantasy is for the picking. We can go back in time, stand still, or go forward.-Lida van Bers
18. If one is lucky, a solitary fantasy can totally transform one million realities.-Maya Angelou
19. But in fantasy, you can make a complete break, and you can put people in a situation where they are confronted with things that they would not confront in the real world.-Elizabeth Moon
20. Fantasy mirrors desire. Imagination reshapes it.-Mason Cooley
21. Fantasy is toxic: the private cruelty and the world war both have their start in the heated brain.-Elizabeth Bowen
22. Fantasy, abandoned by reason, produces impossible monsters; united with it, she is the mother of the arts and the origin of marvels.-Francisco de Goya
23. I’ve always said fantasy is sort of stealth philosophy.-Terry Goodkind
24. As unrealistic as fairy tales always are, if there wasn’t a reality that we could translate into our own fantasy, in our own life, it would be boring. The interest is only because of a potential reality.-Jan Harlan
25. We don’t create a fantasy world to escape reality. We create it to be able to stay.-Lynda Barry
26. 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
27. People frequently believe the creative life is grounded in fantasy. The more difficult truth is that creativity is grounded in reality, in the particular, the focused, the well observed or specifically imagined.-Julia Cameron
28. I think the more stressful our times get, the more we look for fantasy escapes.-Jeri Ryan
29. Creating fantasy is a very personal thing, but you can’t take the process too personally.-Joseph Barbera
30. 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