89 Quotes by J.G. Ballard

So, with all this time on my hands, I decided to start a revolution.

A kind of banalization of celebrity has occurred: we are now offered an instant, ready-to-mix fame as nutritious as packet soup.

Art exists because reality is neither real nor significant.

In the post-Warhol era a single gesture such as uncrossing one's legs will have more significance than all the pages in War and Peace.

Kill a politician and you're tied to the motive that made you pull the trigger.

the ragged skyline of the city resembled the disturbed encephalograph of an unresolved mental crisis.

this was an environment built, not for man, but for man's absence.

Without knowing it, he had constructed a gigantic vertical zoo, its hundreds of cages stacked above each other. All the events of the past few months made sense if one realised that these brilliant and exotic creatures had learned to open the doors.

Put a higher value on yourself. Being hyper-realistic about everything is too simple a get-out.