Robert Redford Quotes

Fantasy, abandoned by reason, produces impossible monsters; united with it, she is the mother of the arts and the origin of marvels.

Imagination is the true magic carpet.

Creativity is magic. Don't examine it too closely.

I love to create. I love to make magic. I love to create the unexpected.

It was really a magical moment, to see this idea that's in your head.

Life would be very dreary if there were no magic. If the real world were only that veil of tears, I just don't think could get up in the morning.

Art is a sense of magic.

For me, art is make-believe. It's enchantment. It's a fable. I'm enjoying that and playing with it. Of course it's serious, and art is serious, but I'm not going to rarefy it.

First of all, writing at best - certainly fiction writing - more and more I think is magic.

Magic is my paint.

Without this playing with fantasy no creative work has ever yet come to birth. The debt we owe to the play of the imagination is incalculable.

I definitely love fantasy and would want to be in a fantasy project.

One of the things I've discovered at my age is I must have enchantment. And that was not clear to me in my earlier years. When I look at my favorite films, the Frank Capra - even Scorsese, even 'Goodfellas,' what makes that movie so remarkable is there's enchantment in their world.

For me, there is very little difference between magic and art. To me, the ultimate act of magic is to create something from nothing: It's like when the stage magician pulls the rabbit from the hat.

All good work has magic in it, and addresses the mind in a subtle way.

I've read up on magic, and I think it sets you free, and it gives you hope. You can explore worlds you didn't know existed. It stretches your imagination, and I like my own imagination to be stretched and also the children I'm telling the story to. It gives you a sense of wonder.

Let the little fairy in you fly!

I see the world as a magical place. Therefore, it was only natural that magic wafted from my fiction like smoke.

I would love to meet J.K. Rowling and tell her how much I admire her writing and am amazed by her imagination. I read every 'Harry Potter' book as it came out and looked forward to each new one. I am rereading them now with my kids and enjoying them every bit as much. She made me look at jelly beans in a whole new way.

Fantasy is my heart and love. And I just want to play in that garden for the rest of my life.

When I wrote the eight fairy tales that appear in 'Horse, Flower, Bird' I was working toward a completely new form of artistic expression, trying to create a new kind of tale that also felt vintage: innocent and childlike, but haunted. I tried to write a picture-less picture book.

Fogs are like dreams that feed the soul, and without their mysterious embrace, childhood, courtship, poetry and the composition of music become all the more difficult.

Women are our most miraculous muse, an enchanted intangibility that encourages all art.

I love the paranormal, because there, every genre I write can become one beacon for my imagination.

Out of nothing I have created a strange new universe.