Lykke Li Quotes

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.

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.

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

I just love writing. It's magical, it's somewhere else to go, it's somewhere much more dreadful, somewhere much more exciting. Somewhere I feel I belong, possibly more than in the so-called real world.

Movies aren't just supposed to be a representation of reality. They're supposed to be an art.

I feel that entertainment happens when fact and fiction is balanced.

Fantasy is the only truth.

My foregrounds are imaginary, my backgrounds real.

I like the fact that I can go away and lose myself so I don't have to live in the world of courage that everyone else does. I like creating, it's what I do, and acting allows me to stretch all those different muscles in all kinds of ways. That's pretty cool.

The imagination is closer to the actor than real life-more agreeable, more comfortable.

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.

So she sat on with closed eyes, and half believed herself in Wonderland, though she knew she had but to open them again, and all would change to dull reality.

Fantasy (in this sense) is, I think, not a lower but a higher form of Art, indeed the most nearly pure form, and so (when achieved) the most potent.

I realized that everything I do is fantasy, whether it is an adult movie or a kids movie.

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.

I spent my childhood in an imaginary world - probably because I needed an escape. I think that's one of the reasons people have imaginations - because they can't maintain existence here.

Only in art will the lion lie down with the lamb, and the rose grow without the thorn.

There are many ways to be free. One of them is to transcend reality by imagination, as I try to do.

Writing, film, sculpture, music: it's all make-believe, really.

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

Fantasy is a necessary ingredient in living, it's a way of looking at life through the wrong end of a telescope, and that enables you to laugh at life's realities.

I love imagining being someone else in another time.

I watched 'Fame,' and I just love the choreography. It just gives me a place to be in another zone.

What is called a sincere work is one that is endowed with enough strength to give reality to an illusion.

Rarely has reality needed so much to be imagined.