Dreamlike Quotes

I think the story of 'Alice in Wonderland' in a way is a reminder that life is frightening, it can shift on you at any moment.

If I had a world of my own, everything would be nonsense.

Some of my songs are like dreams, and when you go to sleep at night you don't know if you're gonna have a dream or what you're gonna dream about.

Tarkovsky for me is the greatest [director], the one who invented a new language, true to the nature of film, as it captures life as a reflection, life as a dream.

My whole story is straight mythical. It's tangible, but it's also what life could be.

It's a strange world, as David Lynch would say.

I, Kusama, am the modern Alice in Wonderland.

Twin Peaks' without David Lynch is like a girl without a secret.

My life is a crystal teardrop. There are snowflakes falling in the teardrop and little figures trudging in slow motion.

Fantasy is not antirational, but pararational; not realistic but surrealistic, a heightening of reality. In Freud's terminology, it employs primary not secondary process thinking. It employs archetypes which, as Jung warned us, are dangerous things. Fantasy is nearer to poetry, to mysticism, and to insanity than naturalistic fiction is. It is a wilderness, and those who go there should not feel too safe.

To me, a fairy tale seems to have become reality.

Everything is always a little surreal.

I describe in a realistic form a nonrealistic Reality.

I like the unreality of your mind; the whole thing is very splendid and voluptuous and absurd.

We're always aiming for storytelling that feels a bit surreal.

Do not take life's experiences too seriously. For in reality they are nothing but dream experiences. Play your part in life, but never forget that it is only a role.

I often photograph something as if the subject matter was realistic, but it is actually a fantasy.

Living in that childish wonder is a most beautiful feeling - I can so well remember it. There was always something more - behind and beyond everything - to me, the golden spectacles were very, very big.

One's fantasy goes for a walk and returns with a bride.

I knew there was something special about the theater for me something beyond the regular reality, something that I could get into and transcend and become something other than myself.

New York reminds me a little bit of Canada and my upbringing. Los Angeles is like living in a vacation, and you have to pinch yourself every once and a while.

Field of Dreams is the only movie - and I saw it in the theater - on an afternoon when I was on location somewhere, and there were like 12 people in the theater. I was just so devastated; I couldn't get out of my seat. And I sat and watched it a second time.

I did go there later, but I hadn't been there before I wrote the book. Sometimes I feel like the imagined can feel more real than the real?