Azar Nafisi Quotes

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

What is a television apparatus to man, who has only to shut his eyes to see the most inaccessible regions of the seen and the never seen, who has only to imagine in order to pierce through walls and cause all the planetary Baghdads of his dreams to rise from the dust.

My pictures are about getting as far away from reality as possible. Dreams should be part of our everyday life.

For really, dreaming is the well-mannered people's way of committing suicide.

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.

For me, fantasy has always been a means of exploring reality: it explores the fact that your internal life, your dreams and the weird images and the things that come to you are things that are actually important tools for dealing with real issues.

Dreaming is very pleasant as long as you are not forced to put your dreams into practice.

Without dreams and phantoms man cannot exist.

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.

I never paint dreams or nightmares. I paint my own reality.

I loved the world of imagination.

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

I have an imagination because my life is so boring that my imagination lets me get off the reality of what's going on.

I dream in color.

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

Oft in dreams invention we bestow to change a flounce or add a furbelow.

His stories are good to hear at night, because we can dream about them asleep; and good in the morning, too, because then we can dream about them awake. (Cowslip)

Fantasy is one of the soul's brighter porcelains.

Like all people who have nothing, I lived on dreams.

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.

I like imagination -- and the way I think things could be, had been, or should be -- better than reality.

My whole art is based on escaping life and reality, which might not the best tendency to have when you're trying to be a good person in general. But people can escape into my world easily - artists are supposed to create a keyhole that people can look into.

Books are packaged dreams.

You are the poet, you walk inside my dreams.

You may tire of reality but you never tire of dreams.