J. G. Ballard Quotes About Inner World
-
I define Inner Space as an imaginary realm in which on the one hand the outer world of reality, and on the other the inner world of the mind meet and merge. Now, in the landscapes of the surrealist painters, for example, one sees the regions of Inner Space; and increasingly I believe that we will encounter in film and literature scenes which are neither solely realistic nor fantastic. In a sense, it will be a movement in the interzone between both spheres.
→ -
In the past we have always assumed that the external world around us has represented reality, however confusing or uncertain, and that the inner world of our minds, its dreams, hopes, ambitions, represented the realm of fantasy, and the imagination. These roles, it seems to me, have been reversed. The most prudent and effective method of dealing with the world around us is to assume that it is a complete fiction - conversely, the one small node of reality left to us is inside of our own heads.
→
Related Authors
-
Will Self Author -
Franz Kafka Writer -
Kingsley Amis Novelist -
Ben Wheatley Director -
John Wyndham Writer -
Brian Aldiss Film writer -
Philip K. Dick Novelist -
Stanislaw Lem Writer -
Arthur C. Clarke Film writer -
William Gibson Novelist -
Kurt Vonnegut Writer -
Martin Amis Novelist -
Anthony Burgess Writer -
William S. Burroughs Novelist -
Frederik Pohl Writer -
Poul Anderson Author -
David Cronenberg Filmmaker -
Ray Bradbury Writer -
Ursula K. Le Guin Author