Doe Quote by Arthur Dove

I just want something that is real and that moves people. And just want to make something real.

— Lizz Wright

I want to create something that doesn't exist exactly in the real world, but exists in a kind of parallel to the real world.

— Lorrie Moore

How do you create something unknown?

— Sam Messer

I hardly need to abstract things, for each object is unreal enough already, so unreal that I can only make it real by means…

— Max Beckmann

I really want to do something that is very, very deep within realism, like a 'Winter's Bone,' or a 'Blue Valentine.'

— Diana Silvers

What I want to show in my work is the idea which hides itself behind so-called reality.

— Max Beckmann

I am searching for abstract ways of expressing reality, abstract forms that will enlighten my own mystery.

— Eric Cantona

I just want something real and someone who will keep it real..

— JordanAmazin

I want to represent the idea that you really can make what you want I believe I can create whatever I want to create.

— Will Smith

You can't write nothing that ain't real.

— DJ Khaled

I'd like to pretend that I've never seen anything, never read anything, never heard anything... and then make something...

— Keith Haring

As a writer of fiction, I spend my days inventing real lives for make-believe people; what I create can only seem real.

— Julia Glass