I define Inner Space as an imaginary realm in which on the one hand the outer world of reality, and on the… — J. G. Ballard Copy Share Image
In the past we have always assumed that the external world around us has represented reality, however confusing or uncertain, and that… — J. G. Ballard Copy Share Image
I would say that I quite consciously rely on my obsessions in all my work, that I deliberately set up an obsessional… — J. G. Ballard Copy Share Image
In his mind Vaughan saw the whole world dying in a simultaneous automobile disaster, millions of vehicles hurled together in a terminal… — J. G. Ballard Copy Share Image
I feel that the surrealists have created a series of valid external landscapes which have their direct correspondences within our own minds. — J. G. Ballard Copy Share Image
Art is the principal way in which the human mind has tried to remake the world in a way that makes sense.… — J. G. Ballard Copy Share Image
Presumably all obsessions are extreme metaphors waiting to be born. That whole private mythology, in which I believe totally, is a collaboration… — J. G. Ballard Copy Share Image
I felt the pressure of imagination against the doors of my mind was so great that they were going to burst. — J. G. Ballard Copy Share Image
Science and technology multiply around us. To an increasing extent they dictate the languages in which we speak and think. Either we use those… — J. G. Ballard Copy Share Image
There are some people, who place enormous value on their home and feel that it defines them, that a stain on the carpet is… — J. G. Ballard Copy Share Image
A reality that is electronic... Once everybody's got a computer terminal in their home, to satisfy all their needs, all the domestic needs, there'll… — J. G. Ballard Copy Share Image
If you're against globalisation, it doesn't achieve much by sort of bombing the head offices of Shell or Nestle. You unsettle people much more… — J. G. Ballard Copy Share Image
I made a very slatternly mother, notably unkeen on housework, unaware that homes need to be cleaned now and then, and too often to… — J. G. Ballard Copy Share Image
I was in Shanghai when the Japanese invaded China. I was there in Shanghai when, the morning after Pearl Harbor, they seized Shanghai. — J. G. Ballard Copy Share Image
Electronic aids, particularly domestic computers, will helpthe inner migration, the opting out of reality. Reality is no longer going to be the stuff out… — J. G. Ballard Copy Share Image
Perhaps the future belongs to magic, and it's we women who control magic. — J. G. Ballard Copy Share Image
I work for three or four hours a day, in the late morning and early afternoon. Then I go out for a walk and… — J. G. Ballard Copy Share Image
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.… — J. G. Ballard Copy Share Image
