Jean-Luc Godard Quotes

Everybody experiences reality in a way that's only true for them.

The people in my songs are all me.

Individuals have to decide what is true and real for them.

Nothing in Scientology is true for you unless you have observed it and it is true according to your observation.

I write what I write in the way that I write it. I'm not being abstract, you know. I'm talking about something that, you know, is a part of my life.

When people ask me a personal question, I answer it in a personal way. I can only speak from the footsteps and the shoes that I've walked in.

People live their lives bound by what they accept as correct and true. That’s how they define Reality. But what does it mean to be “correct” or “true”? Merely vague concepts… Their Reality may all be a mirage. Can we consider them to simply be living in their own world, shaped by their beliefs?

You've seen what you've seen; you've felt what you've felt. Ideology is for people who don't trust their own experiences and perceptions of the world.

Awareness means the capacity to see a coffeepot and hear the birds sing in one's own way and not the way one was taught.

Your message means less than the way the message is delivered, because in actuality, the way the message is delivered, IS the message.

It's strange how memory gets twisted and pulled like taffy in its retelling, how a single event can mean something different to everyone present.

No one can see your life the way you see it.

Reality! But what does this word mean? Each has his own reality. I draw upon my personal reality upon the dark side of myself, my unconscious.

We all have a world of things inside ourselves and each one of us has his own private world. How can we understand each other if the words I use have the sense and the value that I expect them to have, but whoever is listening to me inevitably thinks that those same words have a different sense and value, because of the private world he has inside himself, too.

A man may love a woman perfectly, and yet by no means ignorantly maintain a thousand women have not larger eyes. Enough that she alone has looked at him with eyes that, large or small, have won his soul.

That which one cannot experience in daily life is not true for oneself.

After all, across the population there are slight differences in brain function, and sometimes these translate directly into different ways of experiencing the world. And each individual believes his way is reality.

If I sing "you broke my heart, you left me flat," everyone knows exactly what that means - they know the story. But if I sing a line that's plaintive or wailing, people can experience their own set of emotions and their own story. Each of us might give that phrase a different meaning. It's open to interpretation, and one song becomes a thousand songs. I love that.

I feel that all a writer has is his own experience.

You can disagree with another person's opinions. You can disagree with their doctrines. You can't disagree with their experience.

For me with art and all that stuff - I like abstraction. I like contortion. I mean, it's still truth. But it's truth through the center of the individual. It doesn't necessarily mean that it's fallacies or falsehoods. It just happens to be one perception of what's happening.

Well, you know... experience is a muffled lantern that throws light only on the bearer...it's incommunicable.

Revelation is necessarily limited to the first communication- after that it is only an account of something which that person says was a revelation made to him; and though he may find himself obliged to believe it, it can not be incumbent on me to believe it in the same manner; for it was not a revelation made to ME, and I have only his word for it that it was made to him.

Every reader gets something different from a book and every reader, in a sense, completes it in a different way.

I'm coming 'round to the view that there's only a personal view of the world.