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“I'd like to write the way I do my paintings, that is, as fantasy takes me, as the moon dictates.”

Way Writing Fantasy Painting Moon Take Me

Author:Paul Gauguin

“Surrealism in painting amounted to little more than the contents of a meagerly stocked dream world: a few witty fantasies, mostly wet dreams and agoraphobic nightmares.”

World Littles Dream Fantasy Painting Witty Nightmare Wet Surrealism Dream World Wet Dreams

Book:On photography

Source: On photography

“When a painter thinks to disengage from the world outside himself and fantasies unprecedented forms he thinks he will make a painting, he finds in this expression the same effect - I would even say the same picture - that he had unconsciously acquired by his habit to experience reality intensely.”

Thinking World Reality Form Fantasy Effects Painting Expression Habit Painter Unprecedented

Author:Pierre Alechinsky

“The passionate reactions of people to a painting, the exclamation, 'Oh, this is wonderful,' may, even if meant in a positive way, entirely destroy the chiaroscuro, the mystical hidden weaving of fantasy which the artist needs.”

People Ifs Way Needs May Artist Fantasy Wonderful Painting Passionate Reactions Mystical Weaving Exclamation Chiaroscuro

Book:The Interpretation of Fairy Tales: Revised Edition

Source: The Interpretation of Fairy Tales: Revised Edition

“In every respect, fantasy is like doing abstract paintings.”

Fantasy Painting Abstract Abstract Painting

Author:Lance Henriksen

“In our minds lives the madonna image--the all-embracing, all- giving tranquil mother of a Raphael painting, one child at her breast, another at her feet; a woman fulfilled, one who asks nothing more than to nurture and nourish. This creature of fantasy, this myth, is the model--the unattainable ideal against which women measure, not only their performance, but their feelings about being mothers.”

Giving Mind Children Feelings Mother Asks Fantasy Feet Painting Creatures Models Ideals Performances Myth Breasts Fulfilled Nurture Tranquil Being A Mother Unattainable Raphael

Author:Lillian B. Rubin

“There is a thing about beauty. Beauty is always associated with the male fantasy of what the female body is. I don’t think there is anything wrong with beauty. It’s just what women think is beautiful can be different. And there can be a beauty in individualism. If there is a wart or a scar, this can be beautiful, in a sense, when you paint it.”

“The world of the cinema and of painting are very different; precisely, the possibilities of photography and the cinema reside in that unlimited fantasy which is born of things themselves... a piece of sugar can become on the screen larger than an infinite perspective of gigantic buildings.”

World Different Born Fantasy Pieces Possibility Building Painting Perspective Photography Infinite Screens Cinema Sugar Unlimited

Author:Salvador Dali

“If I would had been born years earlier, I would have been in all the Westerns. It's just the way that the industry goes. But now, we are in an age of a lot of different kinds of fears, and you have the science fiction and horror genres doing our morality plays the same way that they would have done in Westerns. I absolutely accept it. In every respect, fantasy is like doing abstract paintings.”