Ray Harryhausen Quotes

The real world is much smaller than the imaginary

The imaginary is what tends to become real.

You know what ART stands for? Above Real Truth.

I think reality is over-rated

"Well, it's no use your talking about waking him," said Tweedledum, "when you're only one of the things in his dream. You know very well you're not real."

There are two kinds of world: the one we dream about and the real one.

The "paradox" is only a conflict between reality and your feeling of what reality "ought to be."

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

The realities of the world seldom measure up to the sublime designs of human imagination.

Dreams have only the pigmentation of fact.

My biggest disappointment is that once I'm finished working on the characters, I really do expect to see them in the flesh one day.

There are some people who live in a dream world, and there are some who face reality; and then there are those who turn one into the other.

If you're going to establish a certain level of unreality than you have to deal with it.

Reality really isn't as dull as it's cracked up to be.

Reality is wrong. Dreams are for real.

Nothing's ever real until it's real.

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

The land of literature is a fairy land to those who view it at a distance, but, like all other landscapes, the charm fades on a nearer approach, and the thorns and briars become visible.

Of all lies, art is the least untrue.

The reason I don't like realist, photorealist, neorealist, or whatever, is that I am as interested in the artificial as I am in the real.

We live in our fantasies and endure our realities.

I'm not really gangsta. Not at all. I just write about them. It's fun to pretend, at least on paper. But in real life, not so much.

Art is a lie that makes us realize the truth.

I think people need fantasy, but I think they also need to know that they're not being lied to. I think sometimes the fantasy can betray people and become more difficult for people's lives than just truth. I can't stand delusion. Delusion makes me sick.