Chris Van Allsburg Quotes

Letters crossing in the post, unfamiliar tunes heard three times in one day, the way that blows of fate descend upon the same bowed shoulders, and the beams of good fortune glow perpetually upon the blessed. Fairy tales, as I said, are lived out daily. There is far more going on in the world than we ever imagine.

Mysteries are not necessarily miracles.

It is the want to know the end that makes us believe in God, or witchcraft, believe, at least, in something.

My work is about life as you and I experience it. You're either lucky or you're not lucky; either your relationship works or it doesn't.

I always have a strange feeling that projects choose you. It's always mysterious.

I welcome the powers of the unknown.

The world is so unpredictable. Things happen suddenly, unexpectedly. We want to feel we are in control of our own existence. In some ways we are, in some ways we're not. We are ruled by the forces of chance and coincidence.

Superstition is the poetry of life.

I believe that life is chaotic, a jumble of accidents, ambitions, misconceptions, bold intentions, lazy happenstances, and unintended consequences, yet I also believe that there are connections that illuminate our world, revealing its endless mystery and wonder.

My life is a big accident, so where I end up, I think it's all accidents.

Chance is perhaps the pseudonym of God when he did not want to sign.

It was the experience of mystery - even if mixed with fear - that engendered religion.

There's nothing more ironic or contradictory than life itself.

Without a doubt. I believe in fate the same way others believe in God. I do believe in fate.

In many ways, the longer I live, I understand that there are so many things outside my control. That's why I believe faith is such a big part of the story. There are so many things that were orchestrated by God, that were put into place to make this perfect storm, that created Linsanity.

I've had many uncanny experiences. I think it's hard to be alive and not have them. But I don't know if I can decide what that means or what they are.

My life is a series of things that just happen.

Much of what we do in life has a huge component of luck.

My life has been a whole series of accidents, some of them happy, some not.

I love the fact that it starts from there, and you don't know where it's gonna go. Wait long enough - love will find you. Everything's a surprise. When you think you've got it all figured out... as Emerson said, the dice of God are always loaded.

A consistent soul believes in destiny, a capricious one in chance.

I'm quite a rational person, but I'm drawn to the irrational. I love coincidences, and I like to question that in fiction: 'Is this random, or is there something working underneath?'

I don't think I'm romantic at all. I have a lot of faith in the right thing happening. I don't really hope for a lot of particulars, I just have faith that the right thing will happen most of the time.

I used to believe in signs, omens, patterns, secret purpose, synchronicities.

Not without a shudder may the human hand reach into the mysterious urn of destiny.