Rene Char Quotes

The public has an appetite for anything about imagination - anything that is as far away from reality as is creatively possible.

Anything that can be dreamed is true.

Oh, must we dream our dreams and have them, too?

Desire is not what you see, but what you imagine.

Men speak of dreaming as if it were a phenomenon of night and sleep. They should know better. All results achieved by us are self-promised, and all self-promises are made in dreams awake. Dreaming is the relief of labor,the wine that sustains us in act. We learn to love labor, not for itself, but for the opportunity it furnishes for dreaming, which is the great under-monotone of real life, unheard, unnoticed, because of its constancy. Living is dreaming. Only in the graves are there no dreams.

We are all of us imaginative in some form or other, for images are the brood of desire.

Sometimes it's just enough for me to have the idea. I don't need to see it through to the end. When it actually happens, I'm always disappointed because it's never like what I imagined in my head. When an idea becomes a reality, then it's a job. I'd rather just think about it.

I prefer the magic to reality, and have since I was 5 years old. Hopefully, I can continue to make films and constantly escape into them.

No fantasies, I don't think. Most of my fantasies have already been realized.

To wear dreams on one's feet is to begin to give a reality to one's dreams.

I suffer from the delusion that every product of my imagination is not only possible, but always on the cusp of becoming real.

I was a great dreamer of day dreams.

Never lose sight of the fact that all human felicity lies in man's imagination, and that he cannot think to attain it unless he heeds all his caprices. The most fortunate of persons is he who has the most means to satisfy his vagaries.

I believe in everything until it's disproved. So I believe in fairies, the myths, dragons. It all exists, even if it's in your mind. Who's to say that dreams and nightmares aren't as real as the here and now?

Everything you can imagine is real.

Fantasy mirrors desire. Imagination reshapes it.

Imagination is the true magic carpet.

Dreams have always expanded our understanding of reality by challenging our boundaries of the real, of the possible.

I have a lot of fantasy.

Literature for me isn't a workaday job, but something which involves desires, dreams and fantasy.

Fantasy is uni-age. You can start it in the creche, and it follows you to death.

Fantasy hats give you the possibility to dream.

Between the theme parks and the movies, the Disney iconography was probably the first set of archetypes that I was exposed to. Walt was able to expose me as a child to the full array of emotions, including fear and sorrow. Those movies and attractions haunted my dreams and made a deep impression on me as a child.

When I turned to writing fantasy, and writing for young people, it was joyous. It was like discovering an underground lake of ideas that went on forever.

The thing with drama is you're allowed to invent people who are maybe slightly better than real people.