Raoul Vaneigem Quotes

Reverie is the groundwork of creative imagination; it is the privilege of the artist that with him it is not as with other men an escape from reality, but the means by which he accedes to it.

I daydream all the time, and I like that quality.

I daydream all the time.

The better you were able to imagine what you wanted to imagine, the farther you could flee from reality.

I am living permanently in my dream, from which I make brief forays into reality.

Any mental activity is easy if it need not be subjected to reality.

I am a bit of a daydreamer.

I'm a daydreamer.

I was a great dreamer of day dreams.

A daydream is an evasion.

There are days where I lose track of time, of place, of everything else, because I've been transported to another universe.

Sometimes when kids look like they're daydreaming, it's because they are, and we can't allow that possibility.

For really, dreaming is the well-mannered people's way of committing suicide.

I mainly let my imagination be my reality. Fantasy is my reality.

I dream. Sometimes I think that's the only right thing to do.

He lost himself in the words and images conjured in his mind and for a while forgot ... He found himself flying among stars and planets.

Fantasy is escapism, but wait... Why is this wrong? What are you escaping from, and where are you escaping to? Is the story opening windows or slamming doors? The British author G.K. Chesterton summarized the role of fantasy very well. He said its purpose was to take the everyday, commonplace world and lift it up and turn it around and show it to us from a different perspective, so that once again we see it for the first time and realize how marvelous it is. Fantasy - the ability to envisage the world in many different ways - is one of the skills that make us human.

How lovely it is to dream while you are awake.

Idle dreaming is often of the essence of what we do.

I'm not interested in an imaginary world.

All that political stuff Delano was doing. Me, I've gone off the top, into total fantasy.

What is a television apparatus to man, who has only to shut his eyes to see the most inaccessible regions of the seen and the never seen, who has only to imagine in order to pierce through walls and cause all the planetary Baghdads of his dreams to rise from the dust.

I loved the world of imagination.

The minute I forget to balance reality with the fantasy, I'm going back to Virginia.

I think I spend most of my time not living in reality, actually.