Irvine Welsh Quotes

When you live far away, home looks a little different every time.

We can see an anthill or a roach or a flower or anything, but we have this frame where our mind recognizes an anthill and then moves on, without taking the opportunity to have the sense of awe that we could have if we really looked at it. The montage is about taking pieces of reality and rearranging them - creating new frames to make you have to stop and look at things in a fresh way. It's basically taking pieces of everyday reality and rearranging them to show people the magic that is inherent in all of these things already.

It isn't a circle--it is simply a long line--as in geometry, you know, one that reaches into infinity. And because we cannot see the end--we also cannot see how it changes. And it is very odd by those who see the changes--who dream, who will not give up--are called idealists...and those who see only the circle we call them the "realists"!

You can go home again...so long as you understand that home is a place where you have never been.

The world is like a Mask dancing. If you want to see it well, you do not stand in one place.

Our idea of a real problem is someone else's idea of an ultimate dream. Put the 'problem' in perspective

Perception can be changed

Lots of people are unable to see all kinds of truths right in front of their eyes." "The world is what we make it, and our future is ours to shape.

The world you see is less of an indication about the world and more of an indication about your seeing.

The fictional eye sees in, through, and around what is really there.

The answers to our questions are everywhere; we just need to change the lens with which we see the world.

[William Eggleston] sets forth what makes up our ordinary world. What is there, however strange, can be accepted without question; familiarity will be what overwhelms us.

There's always a story. It's all stories, really. The sun coming up every day is a story. Everything's got a story in it. Change the story, change the world.

The only thing that is different from one time to another is what is seen and what is seen depends upon how everybody is doing everything.

Our perceiving self is nowhere to be found in the world-picture, because it itself is the world-picture.

That's all a writer has to write about - what he sees and hears and what not.

It isn't safe to sit in judgment upon another person's illusion when you are not on the inside. While you are thinking it is a dream, he may be knowing it is a planet.

Each time your mind changes your whole world is changed.

I never take pictures. Skies are much larger in reminiscences and my friends are much better-looking. Photos crop reality into little squares; instead, I have very good binoculars.

The world is about the way in which our dreams intersect with our real life. Endlessly, the world of the imagination changes the world.

It is your understanding that is going to change your reality.

There is no such thing as a strange world, only a new world.

Things may look different to you than they did before. I've had that experience myself. But don't let appearances fool you. There's only one reality.

We say that the sun is behind the clouds, but actually it is not the sun but the city from which we view it that is behind the clouds. If we realized that the sun is never behind the clouds we might have a different attitude toward the whole thing.

We forget that the world is what we imagine it to be. We stop being the sun and become, instead, the pool of water reflecting it.