J. G. Ballard Quotes about War

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Psychiatrists the dominant lay priesthood since the First World War.

Psychiatrists the dominant lay priesthood since the First World War.

J. G. Ballard

War, World, Firsts

"The Lure of the Madding Crowd". The Independent on Sunday, 1991.

The surrealists, and the modern movement in painting as a whole, seemed to offer a key to the strange postwar world with its threat of nuclear war. The dislocations and ambiguities, in cubism and abstract art as well as the surrealists, reminded me of my childhood in Shanghai.

J. G. Ballard

Art, War, Keys

"Age of unreason". Interview with Jeannette Baxter, www.theguardian.com. June 22, 2004.

E. Klimov's 'Come and See,' about partisans fighting the Germans in Byelorussia, is the greatest anti-war film ever made.

J. G. Ballard

War, Fighting, Film

I thought it was a wonderfully conceptual act actually, to fire a replica pistol at a figurehead - the guy could have been working for Andy Warhol!

J. G. Ballard

War, Fire, Guy

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.

J. G. Ballard

War, Legs, Gestures

Their violence (the jungle wars of the '70s), and all violence for that matter, reflects the neutral exploration of sensation that is taking place, within sex as elsewhere and the sense that the perversions are valuable precisely because they provide a readily accessible anthology of exploratory techniques.

J. G. Ballard

Sex, War, Technique

I find wholly baffling the widespread belief today that the dropping of the Hiroshima and Nagasaki bombs was an immoral act, even possibly a war crime to rank with Nazi genocide.

J. G. Ballard

War, Hiroshima And Nagasaki, Bombs

"The End of My War". Sunday Times, 1995.

J. G. Ballard Quotes about War

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