"My ideas are not meant to suggest dreams……" — Chris Van Allsburg

"My ideas are not meant to suggest dreams or reality, but a surreal quality."

— Chris Van Allsburg

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38 Quotes by Chris Van Allsburg

Chris Van Allsburg has 38 quotes on this site. A few more worth reading:

As much as I'd like to meet the tooth fairy on an evening walk, I don't really believe it can…
Santa is our culture's only mythic figure truly believed in by a large percentage of the population. It's a fact…
The Dick, Jane, and Spot primers have gone to that bookshelf in the sky. I have, in some ways, a…
There was a great deal of peer recognition to be gained in elementary school by being able to draw well.…
I pore over every word on the cereal box at breakfast, often more than once. You can ask me anything…
I write for what's left of the eight-year-old still rattling around inside my head
The Polar Express was the easiest of my picture book manuscripts to write... Once I realized the train was going…
The idea of the extraordinary happening in the context of the ordinary is what's fascinating to me
Some artists claim praise is irrelevant in measuring the success of art, but I think it's quite relevant. Besides, it…
There must be something to think about at the end.
Certain peer pressures encourage little fingers to learn how to hold a football instead of a crayon. I confess to…
The opportunity to create a small world between two pieces of cardboard, where time exists yet stands still, where people…

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More Dreams Quotes

This quote is filed under Dreams Quotes, one of 7,465 quotes in that category. Here are a few more:

Hope is a waking dream. — Aristotle
Never in my wildest dreams did I entertain the idea that I would become a fashion designer. — Giorgio Armani
Learn from your dreams what you lack. — Wystan Hugh Auden
Don't believe what your eyes are telling you. All they show is limitation. Look with your understanding, find out what… — Richard Bach
That's what keeps me going: dreaming, inventing, then hoping and dreaming some more in order to keep dreaming. — Joseph Barbera
A positive attitude can really make dreams come true - it did for me. — David Bailey
So many of my dreams were to actually be able to make a living of what I did as a… — Rick Baker
Like all young reporters - brilliant or hopelessly incompetent - I dreamed of the glamorous life of the foreign correspondent:… — Russell Baker
The American Dream has run out of gas. The car has stopped. It no longer supplies the world with its… — J. G. Ballard
He was a dreamer, a thinker, a speculative philosopher... or, as his wife would have it, an idiot. — Douglas Adams
What is life? A madness. What is life? An illusion, a shadow, a story. And the greatest good is little… — Pedro Calderon de la Barca
I'd definitely be the kind of parent who enabled my child's dreams. I'd just watch and nurture and guide them.… — Drew Barrymore

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