But fantasy kills imagination, pornography is death to art. Iris Murdoch
We live in a fantasy world, a world of illusion. The great task in life is to find reality. Iris Murdoch
Fantasy consists in a morbid fascination with unrealities, which secretly transforms itself into a desire to make them real. Imagination is a form of intellectual control, which presents us with the image of unrealities in order that we should understand and feel distanced from them. In imagination we dominate; in fantasy, we are dominated. Roger Scruton
Fantasy is toxic: the private cruelty and the world war both have their start in the heated brain. Elizabeth Bowen
The gift of fantasy has meant more to me than my talent for absorbing positive knowledge. Albert Einstein
The thinking person has the strange characteristic to like to create a fantasy in the place of the unsolved problem, a fantasy that stays with the person even when the problem has been solved and truth made its appearance. Goethe
Fantasy is an exercise bicycle for the mind. It might not take you anywhere, but it tones up the muscles that can. Of course, I could be wrong. Terry Pratchett
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
If one is lucky, a solitary fantasy can totally transform one million realities. Maya Angelou
All fantasy should have a solid base in reality. Max Beerbohm
The poet is in command of his fantasy, while it is exactly the mark of the neurotic that he is possessed by his fantasy. Lionel Trilling