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If I'm doing my job correctly, I'm presenting a scenario for you as the reader to engage with on your own. I mean that's…

— T.C. Boyle

At first, I see pictures of a story in my mind. Then creating the story comes from asking questions of myself. I guess you…

— Chris Van Allsburg

I often photograph something as if the subject matter was realistic, but it is actually a fantasy.

— Juergen Teller

I make up stories that take place in real space with real people. If I could convert this into a technique for experimental novels,…

— John Darnielle

I try to create paintings that are a window for the imagination. If people look at my work and are reminded of the way…

— Thomas Kinkade

Imagination should be used, not to escape reality but to create it.

— Colin Wilson

Whether a photo or music, or a drawing or anything else I might do—it’s ultimately all an abstraction of my peculiar experience.

— William Eggleston

All you need is your own imagination. So use it that's what it's for.

— Madonna Ciccone

If there’s a thing, a scene, maybe, an image that you want to see real bad, that you need to see but it doesn’t…

— Tom Robbins

I can't do fiction unless I visualize what's going on. When I began to write science fiction, one of the things I found lacking…

— William Gibson

But, I would always be thinking of how pictures are constructed and colour, how to use it, I mean you're using it for constructing,…

— David Hockney

For me painting is a dramatic action in the course of which reality finds itself split apart

— Pablo Picasso