As much as I’d like to meet the tooth fairy on an evening walk, I don’t really believe it can happen. Chris Van Allsburg Read Quote
Santa is our culture’s only mythic figure truly believed in by a large percentage of the population. It’s a fact that most of the true believers are under eight years old, and that’s a pity. Chris Van Allsburg Read Quote
Some artists claim praise is irrelevant in measuring the success of art, but I think it’s quite relevant. Besides, it makes me feel great. Chris Van Allsburg Read Quote
The Polar Express’ began with the idea of a train standing alone in the woods. I asked myself, ‘What if a boy gets on that train? Where does he go?’ Chris Van Allsburg Read Quote
I think, for the most part, our culture embraces that artists are born, not made. Chris Van Allsburg Read Quote
The whole idea of being mesmerized and not in control of your own actions is fascinating and a little spooky. I remember hearing about someone who’d gone to a magic act, and a person in the audience had become hypnotized by observing too closely what magician was doing on stage, and thought it was spooky to lose your consciousness that way. Chris Van Allsburg Read Quote
I believe that there will be many things that happen to me in my life that I will not be able to explain. Some of those might be magic. I’m not sure. Chris Van Allsburg Read Quote
The idea of the extraordinary happening in the context of the ordinary is what’s fascinating to me. Chris Van Allsburg Read Quote
