Artist Quotes by J. G. Ballard

8 Artist quotes by J. G. Ballard

Ballard’s dystopian narratives probe the edge of humanity. These eight quotes give a quick taste of his thoughts on the artist’s capacity to reveal hidden societal currents.

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I would love to have been a painter in the tradition of the surrealist painters who I admire so much.

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I don't think any particular painters have inspired me, except in a general sense. It was more a matter of corroboration. The…

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I thought it was a wonderfully conceptual act actually, to fire a replica pistol at a figurehead - the guy could have…

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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…

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When the modern movement began, starting perhaps with the paintings of Manet and the poetry of Baudelaire and Rimbaud, what distinguished the…

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There were no museums or galleries in Shanghai, but I was very keen on art - I was always sketching and copying,…

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My room is dominated by the huge painting, which is a copy of 'The Violation' by the Belgian surrealist Paul Delvaux. The…

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Pop artists deal with the lowly trivia of possessions and equipment that the present generation is lugging along with it on its…

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Science and technology multiply around us. To an increasing extent they dictate the languages in which we speak and think. Either we use those…

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The suburbs dream of violence.

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I made a very slatternly mother, notably unkeen on housework, unaware that homes need to be cleaned now and then, and too often to…

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I was in Shanghai when the Japanese invaded China. I was there in Shanghai when, the morning after Pearl Harbor, they seized Shanghai.

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Electronic aids, particularly domestic computers, will helpthe inner migration, the opting out of reality. Reality is no longer going to be the stuff out…

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Perhaps the future belongs to magic, and it's we women who control magic.

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Any fool can write a novel but it takes real genius to sell it.

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I work for three or four hours a day, in the late morning and early afternoon. Then I go out for a walk and…

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Even one's own home is a kind of anthology of advertisers, manufacturers, motifs and presentation techniques. There's nothing 'natural' about one's home these days.…

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I was born in the city's general hospital on November 15, 1930, and we lived at 31 Amherst Avenue in the western suburbs. It…

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I suspect that many of the great cultural shifts that prepare the way for political change are largely aesthetic. A Buick radiator grille is…

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Orwell's '1984' convinced me, rightly or wrongly, that Marxism was only a quantum leap away from tyranny. By contrast, Huxley's 'Brave New World' suggested…

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