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Quotes About Creativity

We read fantasy to find the colors again, I think. To taste strong spices and hear the songs the sirens sang.
~ George R. R. Martin
There is a part of me that has to depend on fantasy, because if you can't be somewhat of a fantasy person, then you can't write
~ Stevie Nicks
I have a certain avoidance of reality that makes fantasy an ideal choice for me.
~ Maggie Stiefvater
I don't like sci-fi/fantasy.
~ Ben Feldman
I wanted to get back to my style of 20 years ago after a long period of exploring horror and fantasy themes.
~ Dario Argento
It's my job, to create a fantasy.
~ Anne Heche
Fantasy hats give you the possibility to dream.
~ Philip Treacy
Fantasy is the only canvas large enough for me to paint on.
~ Terry Brooks
I'd like to write the way I do my paintings, that is, as fantasy takes me, as the moon dictates.
~ Paul Gauguin
Why are you messing with the fantasy? We know about the reality. Don't ruin the fantasy, OK?
~ Anthony Michael Hall
there is no such thing as fantasy unrelated to reality
~ Maurice Sendak
Why should the composer be more guilty than the poet who warms to fantasy by a strange flame, making an idea that inspires him the subject of his own very different treatment?
~ Franz Schubert
Fantasy isn't something you run out of.
~ Nancy Friday
When we do fantasy, we must not lose sight of reality.
~ Walt Disney
Fashion is not about buying a second skin. Fashion is about having a fantasy.
~ Alber Elbaz
Still more astonishing is that world of rigorous fantasy which we call mathematics.
~ Gregory Bateson
All fiction is autobiographical fantasy.
~ James Joyce
There's a time and place for everything, and I believe it's called 'fan fiction'.
~ Joss Whedon
It's easy to make up weird stuff. It gets trickier when you want the weird stuff to be interesting and make sense.
~ Brandon Mull
There have been many different artists that have been inspirational. I suppose the question is directed to what was the reason why I went into fantasy illustration.
~ Boris Vallejo
Creating fantasy is a very personal thing, but you can't take the process too personally.
~ Joseph Barbera
All novels are fantasies. Some are more honest about it.
~ Gene Wolfe
He who passes not his days in the realm of dreams is the slave of the days.
~ Khalil Gibran
The way I write things, I just write them with a clash between reality and fantasy mostly. You have to use fantasy to show different sides of reality; it's how it can bend.
~ Jimi Hendrix