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It's the imagination that is involved in sci-fi, and fantasy is what draws me to it. Stories, everything. -- Mark Sheppard
Those Dutchmen had hardly any imagination or fantasy, but their good taste and their scientific knowledge of composition were enormous. -- Vincent Van Gogh
In my early teens, science fiction and fantasy had an almost-total hold over my imagination. Their outcast status was part of their appeal. -- Hari Kunzru
I don't feel there's any reason to apologise for having a wicked imagination. I think it's important as a maker of fantasy and of horror. -- Clive Barker
I think it reflects well on the state of animation that people are knowledgeable about it and love the fantasy and imagination that goes into it. -- Bill Plympton
Heaven knows, I've exposed myself in my novels through the use of fantasy and imagination... now my new book is about what really happened to me... not my heroines. -- Judith Krantz
Encourage children to write their own stories, and then don't rain on their parade. Don't say, 'That's not true.' Applaud flights of fantasy. Help with spelling and grammar, but stand up and cheer the use of imagination. -- Gail Carson Levine
My imagination completely controls me, and forever feeds the fire that burns with dark red light in my heart by bringing me the best dreams. I've always had a wild imagination, a big heart and a tortured soul so I feel that dark fantasy, love and horror are in my blood. -- Elizabeth Kim
There's no artist in this world that doesn't enjoy the dream that if they have bad reviews now, the story of Keats can redeem them, in their fantasy or imagination, in the future. I think Keats' poem 'Endymion' is a really difficult poem, and I'm not surprised that a lot of people pulled it apart in a way. -- Jane Campion
Fantasy mirrors desire. Imagination reshapes it. -- Mason Cooley
Touch the sky of human imagination. Read fantasy. -- A.E. Marling
But fantasy kills imagination, pornography is death to art. -- Iris Murdoch
I mainly let my imagination be my reality. Fantasy is my reality. -- Lana Del Rey
I think fantasy literature is the one true literature of hope and imagination. -- Vera Nazarian
The illusion of magic is an idealistic fantasy; it exists only in the imagination of the spectator. -- Paul LePaul
'Castle' is a guy living in a fantasy world. He's in his imagination, writing these stories of murder. -- Nathan Fillion
Castle' is a guy living in a fantasy world. He's in his imagination, writing these stories of murder. -- Nathan Fillion
As an actor, you deal in fantasy, imagination, and concentration. Those are your three weapons. Those are your bullets. -- Rob Lowe
All the works of man have their origin in creative fantasy. What right have we then to depreciate imagination. -- Carl Jung
I don't think you can have an imagination without having fantasy, and you can't have that rich a life without an imagination. -- Jane Alison
I have a hyper-active imagination, my mind tends to jump around a little, and I have some trouble between fantasy and reality. -- Woody Allen
When you talk about fantasy, the usual problem is that whilst you've got the world of imagination, there are no controlling forces. -- Raymond E. Feist
We fall in love when our imagination projects nonexistent perfection upon another person. One day, the fantasy evaporates and with it, love dies. -- Jose Ortega y Gasset
The essence of art is to recapturel the fantasy and the imagination of a child again, but without the innocence of a child. -- Romare Bearden
Do not confuse fantasy with imagination; the former consumes itself in daydreaming, the latter stimulates creativity in the arts and in the sciences. -- Fausto Cercignani
As children, we all live in a world of imagination, of fantasy, and for some of us that world of make-believe continues into adulthood. -- Jim Henson
I have a recurring fantasy that one more article has been added to the Bill of Rights: the right to free access to imagination. -- Azar Nafisi
Positive self-direction is the action plan that all winners in life use to turn imagination into reality, fantasy into fact, and dreams into actual goals. -- Denis Waitley
Without this playing with fantasy no creative work has ever yet come to birth. The debt we owe to the play of the imagination is incalculable. -- Carl Jung
One siupreme fact which I have discovered is that it is not willpower, but fantasy and imagination that ceates. Imagination is the creative force. Imagination creates reality. -- Richard Wagner
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I write fantasy because it's there. I have no other excuse for sitting down for several hours a day indulging my imagination. Daydreaming. Thinking up imaginary people, impossible places. -- Patricia A. McKillip
No fairy tale, this. This was by no stretch of the imagination a polished fantasy. This was a searing, living force, rough around the edges, unfamiliar and bittersweet.And precious. -- V.S. Carnes

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