Genndy Tartakovsky Quotes

Rarely has reality needed so much to be imagined.

I take inspiration from my life but only twenty per cent is real the rest is all made up.

Art as a fantasy has been one of my earliest experiences. I suppose a lot of my childhood was a fantasy that involved getting away from things I didn't like. Fortunately it had some relationship to reality so that later I was able to, to some extent, act as I imagined I might.

Painting can feign reality without having seen it.

Reality can be beaten with enough imagination.

One can be absolutely truthful and sincere even though admittedly the most outrageous liar. Fiction and invention are of the very fabric of life.

In painting you must give the idea of the true by means of the false.

Reality doesn't interest me.

Dreams have only the pigmentation of fact.

All that we see or seem is but a dream within a dream.

Sometimes my art is just an illusion - or is it?

All action takes place, so to speak, in a kind of twilight, which like a fog or moonlight, often tends to make things seem grotesque and larger than they really are.

As in The Lime Twig dream and illusion are right at the center of Charivari.

If poets were realistic, they wouldn't be poets.

Of all lies, art is the least untrue.

Dreams are true while they last, and do we not live in dreams?

Photography, as we all know, is not real at all. It is an illusion of reality with which we create our own private world.

When I am writing, I do not distinguish between the natural and supernatural. Everything seems real. That is my world, you could say.

Imagination and fiction make up more than three quarters of our real life.

People don't really want reality. They want theater, and that's different.

Fantasy is the only truth.

Illusion throughout is illusion. There is no end to it, just as there is no end to imagination.

You know what ART stands for? Above Real Truth.

My foregrounds are imaginary, my backgrounds real.

They said, 'You have a blue guitar, / You do not play things as they are.' / The man replied, 'Things as they are / Are changed upon the blue guitar.'