Quotes About Fantastique

#1. Our Onirisme movement was a synthesis between the Romantic Fantastique and Surrealism. Dimov and I rejected automatic writing. We loved surrealist painters: Chirico, Magritte, Tanguy and especially Brauner (also a Romanian), who never respected the laws that Breton imposed in his manifests.

Dumitru Tepeneag

#2. Fantastique, 'Dream of a Witches' Sabbat'. "Though

Martin Edwards

#3. Since adolescence I've had a passion for Romantic Fantastique literature, which continued with Expressionism and culminated with the genius of Kafka. It's that German thread of the metaphysic - they were looking for the beyond in dreams.

Dumitru Tepeneag

#4. Lon Chaney and Boris Karloff didn't like the word 'horror'. They, like I, went for the French description: 'the theatre of the fantastique'.

Christopher Lee

#5. The goods of the earth are meant for everyone.

Pope Francis

#6. I wish I was a guy who could have pancakes and bacon and cheesy eggs, but I'd curl up and pass out. I gotta start healthy or I'll be off the rails all day.

Donnie Wahlberg

#7. The world isn't that easily turned upside down, Haida replied. It's people who are turned upside down.

Haruki Murakami

#8. The more we know of God, the more unreservedly we will trust him; the greater our progress in theology, the simpler and more child-like will be our faith

J. Gresham Machen

#9. What is admirable about the fantastic is that there is no longer anything fantastic: there is only the real.

Andre Breton

#10. And besides, I don't design my smiles to be nets because I'm not fishing

Roseanna Boswell

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

Rosemary Jackson

#12. The fantastic is always a break in the acknowledged order, an irruption of the inadmissible within the changeless everyday legality

Roger Caillois

#13. The job of senior management is to cultivate an environment where store managers can learn from the market and from each other.

Sam Walton

#14. The misfortunes hardest to bear are these which never came.

Christopher Morley

#15. Whatever may be the general endeavor of a community to render its members equal and alike, the personal pride of individuals will always seek to rise above the line, and to form somewhere an inequality to their own advantage.

Alexis De Tocqueville

#16. The extent to which human aggression exemplifies innate tendencies is not clear.

B.F. Skinner

#17. 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.

Michael Richardson

#18. 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'.

Michael Richardson

#19. It was the case in the 70s and 80s that people believed music could change the world. But now people aren't making music because they want to change the world; they're making music because they want to just make a ton of money.

Sinead O'Connor