Art Quote by Bruno Bettelheim

“Because fairy tales contain powerful truths about the human condition, many of them, with tenacity and uncanny persistence, turn up, theme and variation, in…

— Gertrud Mueller Nelson

From a tale one expects a bit of wildness, of exaggeration and dramatic effect. The tale has no inherent concern with decorum, balance or…

— Peter Straub

Fairytales work on two levels. On a conscious level, they are stories of true love and triumph and overcoming difficult odds and so are…

— Kate Forsyth

For those who immerse themselves in what the fairy tale has to communicate, it becomes a deep, quiet pool which at first seems to…

— Bruno Bettelheim

As a reader, coming to my reading as a writer immersed in fairytales, I cant help but notice in so many stories, plays, poems…

— Kate Bernheimer

“The literary fairy tale became an acceptable social symbolic form through which conventionalized motifs, characters, and plots were selected, composed, arranged, and rearranged to…

— Jack Zipes

Fairy tales are loved by the child not because the imagery he finds in them conforms to what goes on within him, but because--despite…

— Bruno Bettelheim

“It has generally been assumed that fairy tales were first created for children and are largely the domain of children. But nothing could be…

— Jack Zipes

The realm of fairy-story is wide and deep and high and filled with many things: all manner of beasts and birds are found there;…

— Anonymous

Fairy tales are experienced by their hearers and readers, not as realistic, but as symbolic poetry.

— Max Luthi

The function of a book or a poem or a story is to delight, to enchant, to beguile.

— Philip Pullman

Fairy tales and mythology have always been an exaggerated distillation of the real world. Think of them as blueprints for how to deal with…

— Charles de Lint