Best 264 quotes in «fantastic quotes» category

Peace becomes a fantasy when egos are promoted and facts distorted.

Planet Earth is a fantastic destination if you manage to find this surreal sensation of wild liberation.

Psychic change, as Todorov has recognized, subverted the genre in another way, by revoking the cultural taboos, the social censorship, that had prohibited the overt treatment of psychosexual themes, which then found covert expression in the supernatural tale. 'There is no need today to resort to the devil [or to posthumous reverie] in order to speak of excessive sexual desire, and none to resort to vampires in order to designate the attraction exerted by corpses: psychoanalysis, and the literature which is directly or indirectly inspired by it, deal with these matters in undisguised terms. The themes of fantastic literature have become, literally, the very themes of the psychological investigations of the last fifty years.

Supernatural fiction contains its own generic borderland: a neutral territory, which Tzvetan Todorov calls 'the fantastic,' between 'the marvelous' and 'the uncanny.' According to Todorov, 'The fantastic is that hesitation experienced by a person who knows only the laws of nature, confronting an apparently supernatural event.' Once the event is satisfactorily explained (and sometimes it is never explained), we have left the fantastic for an adjacent genre - either 'the uncanny,' where the apparently supernatural is revealed as illusory, or 'the marvelous,' where the laws of ordinary reality must be revised to incorporate the supernatural. As long as uncertainty reigns, however, we are in the ambiguous realm of the fantastic.

Refusing what Adorno called that 'comfort in the uncomfortable' taken by the fantastic, surrealism seeks to reintegrate man into the universe.

Surrealism, then, neither aims to subvert realism, as does the fantastic, nor does it try to transcend it. It looks for different means by which to explore reality itself.

The influence of the future on the past," said Morel enthusiastically, almost inaudibly.

The fantastic cannot exist independently of that 'real' world which it seems to find frustratingly finite.

The fantastic in literature doesn't exist as a challenge to what is probable, but only there where it can be increased to a challenge of reason itself: the fantastic in literature consists, when all has been said, essentially in showing the world as opaque, as inaccessible to reason on principle. This happens when Piranesi in his imagined prisons depicts a world peopled by other beings than those for which it was created. ("On the Fantastic in Literature")

The greatest gratification I make while writing is that unique possibility of living my own adventures

The shifting sands of the world... show how much the surrealists were drawn towards an interrogation of what reality actually is. Unlike fabulists of whatever hue, there is a materiality in surrealist writing that resolutely keeps it, one might say, 'down to earth'.

There are... otherwise quite decent people who are so dull of nature that they believe that they must attribute the swift flight of fancy to some illness of the psyche, and thus it happens that this or that writer is said to create not other than while imbibing intoxicating drink or that his fantasies are the result of overexcited nerves and resulting fever. But who can fail to know that, while a state of psychical excitement caused by the one or other stimulant may indeed generate some lucky and brilliant ideas, it can never produce a well-founded, substantial work of art that requires the utmost presence of mind.

This is the beginning of a new era

(Uncle) would remark that it was impossible to get by without such a (portentous and whimsical) tone when speaking of many things of this world, and especially of the things not entirely of this world.

This world which we like to believe is sane and real is, in truth, absurd and fantastic.

True love can happen even if it has to go through centuries until we can find it

(Washington) Irving was only the first of the writers of the American ghostly tale to recognize that the supernatural, exactly because its epistemological status is so difficult to determine, challenged the writer to invent a commensurately sophisticated narrative technique.

We have just begun to navigate a strange region; we must expect to encounter strange adventures, strange perils.

we are living in the world where FANTASTIC BUT PLASTIC human being exists which can't decompose by the soil only by the fire still it can harm our environment, normally violent crime committed by someone who really close to us and US are the victim (Ejump, 2016)

Welcome to Yggdrasil and the warm embrace of MacCumhaill

Affectation is certain deformity; by forming themselves on fantastic models, the young begin with being ridiculous, and often end in being vicious.

We must follow our heart, but when we least expect it, it no longer belongs to us

When we are no longer children we are already dead

You want to do something very simple but also very fantastic? Then sit under the rain! Not long after, yourself will leave you and there will remain only the rain!

Admittedly, I am not the one who looks fantastic in everything, but still I cannot help loving myself.

A fantastic positive ATTITUDE makes a great day! SMILE!

The fantastic is in complicity with the realist model, in the claims that realism makes to represent the true face of reality. It points to the gaps and inadequacies of realism, but does not question the legitimacy of its claims to represent reality. The concept of “suspension of disbelief', that beloved criterion of positivist criticism supposedly serving to establish the legitimacy of the fantastic, confirms this hegemony.

The fantastic postulates that there are forces in the outside world, and in our own natures, which we can neither know nor control, and these forces may even constitute the essence of our existence, beneath the comforting rational surface. The fantastic is, moreover, a product of human imagination, perhaps even an excess of imagination. It arises when laws thought to be absolute are transcended, in the borderland between life and death, the animate and the inanimate, the self and the world; it arises when the real turns into the unreal, and the solid presence into vision, dream or hallucination. The fantastic is the unexpected occurrence, the startling novelty which goes contrary to all our expectations of what is possible. The ego multiplies and splits, time and space are distorted.

Against Juventus we were massive underdogs, so to beat them was fantastic.

A good story can take you on a fantastic journey.

All the directors that I've had the opportunity to work with are fantastic.

All the boys in rehab are totally available because their girlfriends have all given up on them. It's fantastic.

Am I allowed to say I really wanted this? This is fantastic.

All the words are already there when you're singing onstage, it's fantastic. You can lose yourself in what you've created. You're controlling this freedom.

Among the guitarists, Wes Montgomery is fantastic. He's always good to let you know what the art form is all about. It's the same still life that everybody is painting, but in comes Wes Montgomery, and it's right there!

Architecture is like a mythical fantastic. It has to be experienced. It can't be described. We can draw it up and we can make models of it, but it can only be experienced as a complete whole.

Art is sexy! Art is money-sexy! Art is money-sexy-social-climbing-fantastic!

As a writer, author, creator of something the fact that people are still interested, is fantastic.

As far as Putin and Russia, I don't say good, bad or indifferent. I don't know the gentleman. I hope we have a fantastic relationship. That's possible and it's also possible that we won't. We will see what happens.

A true buddy is a person who thinks that you'll be a fantastic egg although he is aware that you are somewhat cracked.

At the Tour, you always have some fantastic days and some days where you hit the asphalt. Today was an asphalt day for me.

Analog was perfected over 70 years, though. Digital will one day be fantastic. I'm sure of it.

Australians are a fantastic bunch of people but the attention can be overwhelming for someone like me.

Australians don't have a preconceived notion of what things have to be... we can go on a fantastic journey.

Ayn Rand more than anyone else did a fantastic job of explaining the morality of capitalism, the morality of individualism.

Beauty, thou wild fantastic ape Who dost in every country change thy shape!

Because it's in and about New York City, I knew 'Ex Machina' was going to have to continually mix the mundane and the fantastic.

As a matter of fact, I find the Western cinema very fantastic.

Cinema Paradiso' is a fantastic film, I love that.

But I went down to Venezuela and spend a few weeks going through jungles. It's fantastic looking.