“When we traded the results of our fantasies, it seemed to us-and rightly-that we had proceeded by unwarranted associations, by shortcuts so extraordinary that, if anyone had accused us of really believing them, we would have been ashamed.” IfsThinkingBelieveHas BeensResultsFantasyExtraordinaryAshamedAssociationAccusedShortcuts Book:Foucault's Pendulum Source: Foucault's Pendulum
“A great number of the disappointments and mishaps of the troubled world are the direct result of literature and the allied arts. It is our belief that no human being who devotes his life and energy to the manufacture of fantasies can be anything but fundamentally inadequate.” WorldHumansArtLiteratureBeliefEnergyHuman BeingsResultsNumbersFantasyDirectDisappointmentInadequateMishaps Author:Christopher Hampton
“Fantasy works inwards upon its author, blurring the boundary between the visioned and the actual, and associating itself ever moreclosely with the Ego, so that the child who has fantasied himself a murderer ends by becoming a Loeb or a Leopold. The creative Imagination works outwards, steadily increasing the gap between the visioned and the actual, till this becomes the great gulf fixed between art and nature. Few writers of crime-stories become murderers--if any do, it is not the result of identifying themselves with their murderous heroes.” IfsChildrenArtEndsStoriesImaginationResultsFantasyCreativeCrimeBecomingHeroEgoWork OutBoundariesFixedGapsMurdererIdentifyingCreative Imagination Book:The Mind of the Maker Source: The Mind of the Maker
“It's just about pushing yourself to realms that are uncharted. I love to get to that place where I don't know what kind of music I'm doing, I don't know if it's any good, I don't know if it's anything. It's a big question mark. The idea is to have interesting results. That's my bottom line. Not just a creative fantasy world or something like that, but a mood too.” IfsKnowsWorldKindIdeasBigsLinesInterestingResultsFantasyCreativeMarkBottomMoodRealmsPushingBottom LinePush YourselfBig QuestionsFantasy WorldsQuestion MarkUncharted Author:Ariel Pink
“Fantasy is a product of thought, Imagination of sensibility. If the thinking, discursive mind turns to speculation, the result isFantasy; if, however, the sensitive, intuitive mind turns to speculation, the result is Imagination. Fantasy may be visionary, but it is cold and logical. Imagination is sensuous and instinctive. Both have form, but the form of Fantasy is analogous to Exposition, that of Imagination to Narrative.” IfsThinkingMindMayFormTurnsImaginationResultsFantasyProductsColdNarrativeSensitiveLogicalSensibilitySpeculationIntuitiveVisionariesSensuous Author:Herbert Read