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J G Ballard Quotes

Art exists because reality is neither real nor significant Picture Quote #1

What our children have to fear is not the cars on the highways of tomorrow but our own pleasure in calculating the most elegant parameters of their deaths Picture Quote #1

Deep assignments run through all our lives; there are no coincidences Picture Quote #1

Sooner or later, all games become serious Picture Quote #1

Elaborate burial customs are a sure sign of decadence Picture Quote #1

Sooner or later, everything turns into television Picture Quote #1

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Any fool can write a novel but it takes real genius to sell it Picture Quote #1

In a completely sane world, madness is the only freedom Picture Quote #1

In a totally sane society, madness is the only freedom Picture Quote #1

God was a clever idea... The human race came up with a winner there Picture Quote #1

Selfish men make the best lovers. They’re prepared to invest in the women’s pleasures so that they can collect an even bigger dividend for themselves Picture Quote #1

I suspect that many of the great cultural shifts that prepare the way for political change are largely aesthetic. A Buick radiator grille is as much a political statement as a Rolls Royce radiator grille, one enshrining a machine aesthetic driven by a populist optimism, the other enshrining a hierarchical and exclusive social order Picture Quote #1

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The geometry of landscape and situation seems to create its own systems of time, the sense of a dynamic element which is cinematizing the events of the canvas, translating a posture or ceremony into dynamic terms. The greatest movie of the 20th century is the Mona Lisa, just as the greatest novel is Gray’s Anatomy Picture Quote #1

People nowadays like to be together not in the old-fashioned way of, say, mingling on the piazza of an Italian Renaissance city, but, instead, huddled together in traffic jams, bus queues, on escalators and so on. It’s a new kind of togetherness which may seem totally alien, but it’s the togetherness of modern technology Picture Quote #1

I would sum up my fear about the future in one word: boring. And that’s my one fear: that everything has happened; nothing exciting or new or interesting is ever going to happen again... the future is just going to be a vast, conforming suburb of the soul Picture Quote #1

The American Dream has run out of gas. The car has stopped. It no longer supplies the world with its images, its dreams, its fantasies. No more. It’s over. It supplies the world with its nightmares now: the Kennedy assassination, Watergate, Vietnam Picture Quote #1

All through my career I’ve written 1,000 words a day - even if I’ve got a hangover. You’ve got to discipline yourself if you’re professional. There’s no other way Picture Quote #1

The enormous energy of the twentieth century, enough to drive the planet into a new orbit around a happier star, was being expended to maintain this immense motionless pause Picture Quote #1

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If I don’t write, I begin to feel unsettled and uneasy, as I gather people do who are not allowed to dream Picture Quote #1

The entertainment medium of film is particularly tuned to the present imaginations of people at large. A lot of fiction is intensely nostalgic Picture Quote #1

The chief role of the universities is to prolong adolescence into middle age, at which point early retirement ensures that we lack the means or the will to enforce significant change Picture Quote #1

Science and technology multiple around us. To an increasing extent they dictate the languages in which we speak and think. Either we use those languages, or we remain mute Picture Quote #1

Pop artists deal with the lowly trivia of possessions and equipment that the present generation is lugging along with it on its safari into the future Picture Quote #1

Fiction is a branch of neurology: the scenarios of nerve and blood vessels are the written mythologies of memory and desire Picture Quote #1

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Across the communication landscape move the specters of sinister technologies and the dreams that money can buy Picture Quote #1

It’s true that I have very little idea what I shall be writing next, but at the same time I have a powerful premonition of everything that lies ahead of me, even ten years ahead Picture Quote #1

Medicine was certainly intended to be a career. I wanted to become a psychiatrist, an adolescent ambition which, of course, is fulfilled by many psychiatrists Picture Quote #1

Yes, sometimes I think that all my writing is nothing more than the compensatory work of a frustrated painter Picture Quote #1

The ultimate concept car will move so fast, even at rest, as to be invisible Picture Quote #1

Perhaps the future belongs to magic, and it’s we women who control magic Picture Quote #1

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Art exists because reality is neither real nor significant (J G Ballard Quotes) What our children have to fear is not the cars on the highways of tomorrow but our own pleasure in calculating the most elegant parameters of their deaths (J G Ballard Quotes) Deep assignments run through all our lives; there are no coincidences (J G Ballard Quotes) Sooner or later, all games become serious (J G Ballard Quotes) Elaborate burial customs are a sure sign of decadence (J G Ballard Quotes) Sooner or later, everything turns into television (J G Ballard Quotes) Any fool can write a novel but it takes real genius to sell it (J G Ballard Quotes) In a completely sane world, madness is the only freedom (J G Ballard Quotes) In a totally sane society, madness is the only freedom (J G Ballard Quotes) God was a clever idea... The human race came up with a winner there (J G Ballard Quotes) Selfish men make the best lovers. They’re prepared to invest in the women’s pleasures so that they can collect an even bigger dividend for themselves (J G Ballard Quotes) I suspect that many of the great cultural shifts that prepare the way for political change are largely aesthetic. A Buick radiator grille is as much a political statement as a Rolls Royce radiator grille, one enshrining a machine aesthetic driven by a populist optimism, the other enshrining a hierarchical and exclusive social order (J G Ballard Quotes) The geometry of landscape and situation seems to create its own systems of time, the sense of a dynamic element which is cinematizing the events of the canvas, translating a posture or ceremony into dynamic terms. The greatest movie of the 20th century is the Mona Lisa, just as the greatest novel is Gray’s Anatomy (J G Ballard Quotes) People nowadays like to be together not in the old-fashioned way of, say, mingling on the piazza of an Italian Renaissance city, but, instead, huddled together in traffic jams, bus queues, on escalators and so on. It’s a new kind of togetherness which may seem totally alien, but it’s the togetherness of modern technology (J G Ballard Quotes) I would sum up my fear about the future in one word: boring. And that’s my one fear: that everything has happened; nothing exciting or new or interesting is ever going to happen again... the future is just going to be a vast, conforming suburb of the soul (J G Ballard Quotes) The American Dream has run out of gas. The car has stopped. It no longer supplies the world with its images, its dreams, its fantasies. No more. It’s over. It supplies the world with its nightmares now: the Kennedy assassination, Watergate, Vietnam (J G Ballard Quotes) All through my career I’ve written 1,000 words a day - even if I’ve got a hangover. You’ve got to discipline yourself if you’re professional. There’s no other way (J G Ballard Quotes) The enormous energy of the twentieth century, enough to drive the planet into a new orbit around a happier star, was being expended to maintain this immense motionless pause (J G Ballard Quotes) If I don’t write, I begin to feel unsettled and uneasy, as I gather people do who are not allowed to dream (J G Ballard Quotes) The entertainment medium of film is particularly tuned to the present imaginations of people at large. A lot of fiction is intensely nostalgic (J G Ballard Quotes) The chief role of the universities is to prolong adolescence into middle age, at which point early retirement ensures that we lack the means or the will to enforce significant change (J G Ballard Quotes) Science and technology multiple around us. To an increasing extent they dictate the languages in which we speak and think. Either we use those languages, or we remain mute (J G Ballard Quotes) Pop artists deal with the lowly trivia of possessions and equipment that the present generation is lugging along with it on its safari into the future (J G Ballard Quotes) Fiction is a branch of neurology: the scenarios of nerve and blood vessels are the written mythologies of memory and desire (J G Ballard Quotes) Across the communication landscape move the specters of sinister technologies and the dreams that money can buy (J G Ballard Quotes) It’s true that I have very little idea what I shall be writing next, but at the same time I have a powerful premonition of everything that lies ahead of me, even ten years ahead (J G Ballard Quotes) Medicine was certainly intended to be a career. I wanted to become a psychiatrist, an adolescent ambition which, of course, is fulfilled by many psychiatrists (J G Ballard Quotes) Yes, sometimes I think that all my writing is nothing more than the compensatory work of a frustrated painter (J G Ballard Quotes) The ultimate concept car will move so fast, even at rest, as to be invisible (J G Ballard Quotes) Perhaps the future belongs to magic, and it’s we women who control magic (J G Ballard Quotes)

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