Howard Barker Quotes

But we try to pretend, you see, that the external world exists altogether independently of us.

In every story of solipsism, there is always a conspiracy. Why? Because there is always a background involved in every perception.

Experience, already reduced to a group of impressions, is ringed round for each one of us by that thick wall of personality through which no real voice has ever pierced on its way to us, or from us to that which we can only conjecture to be without.

There's no reality except the one contained within us. That's why so many people live an unreal life. They take images outside them for reality and never allow the world within them to assert itself.

We live in condensations of our imagination

Because our entire universe is made up of consciousness, we never really experience the universe directly we just experience our consciousness of the universe, our perception of it, so right, our only universe is perception.

The world is real. Consciousness is the illusion.

Reality is how we interpret it. Imagination and volition play a part in that interpretation. Which means that all reality is to some extent a fiction.

It is the mind which creates the world around us, and even though we stand side by side in the same meadow, my eyes will never see what is beheld by yours, my heart will never stir to the emotions with which yours is touched.

Reality is only a Rorschach ink-blot, you know.

The mind was dreaming. The world was its dream.

Reality is mind-made.

The difference is as great between The optics seeing as the objects seen. All manners take a tincture from our own; Or come discolor'd through out passions shown; Or fancy's beam enlarges, multiplies, Contracts, inverts, and gives ten thousand dyes.

You believe that you live in the world, where in fact the world lives within you.

The reality is in this head. Mine. I'm the projector at the planetarium, all the closed little universe visible in the circle of that stage is coming out of my mouth, eyes, and sometimes other orifices also.

The big show is inside my head.

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.

We each create our world by what we choose to notice, creating a world of distinction that makes sense to us. We then 'see' the world through the self we have created.

I'm trying to get more into other things, where reality is nothing but each individual's way of thinking.

Bored with obvious reality, I find my fascination in transforming it into a subjective point of view.

I secretly think reality exists so we can speculate about it.

There's a very fine line between one person's reality and another person's fantasy.

Every man takes the limits of his own field of vision for the limits of the world.

All my work comes from perceiving. I kept seeing things that were brooding in me. I'm not a geometric artist.

There are many levels of truth.