Brian Tyree Henry Quotes

You have to use fantasy to show different sides to reality. That's how it can bend.

Consensus reality seemed like a dull, dead-end street compared to the intense, mutable reality of visions or whatever they were - neurological misfires. I expected life to be full of sudden, inexplicable surprises. When these things didn't happen for a while, life seemed dull and painful.

We live in condensations of our imagination

The relationship between the imagined and the real is more complicated than people imagine.

Men seek for vocabularies that are reflections of reality. To this end, they must develop vocabularies that are selections of reality. And any selection of reality must, in certain circumstances, function as a deflection of reality.

Our brains are like bonsai trees, growing around our private versions of reality.

The problem is that perception is reality.

Surrealism: An archaic term. Formerly an art movement. No longer distinguishable from everyday life.

It's a wonderful narrative device to bring someone from the outside and look through his eyes if you want to describe the absurdity and preposterous reality that is accepted amongst the ones who are inside.

The eye altering, alters all.

If you're treated a certain way you become a certain kind of person. If certain things are described to you as being real they're real for you whether they're real or not.

Art is really about perception, and mine have been changed through visiting other realities.

The adjustment of reality to the masses and of the masses to reality is a process of unlimited scope, as much for thinking as for perception.

I cannot be awake for nothing looks to me as it did before, Or else I am awake for the first time, and all before has been a mean sleep.

I try and take the photographs and paintings and make them real. And the real video we treat as paintings. We flip the reality.

The world today doesn't make sense, so why should I paint pictures that do?

Those of us who make movies play with perception and reality; those who watch our films are responsible for making sense of it.

The moment I'm interested in, the moment I'm working toward in these stories, is when the familiar world seems strange.

What I've always been most interested in is exposing the way stories and fantasies reconstitute our everyday reality. What appears to be non-fiction is not only totally mysterious, unfathomable, and strange when you really look at what it is.

My most important problem was destroying the lines of demarcation that separate what seems real from what seems fantastic.

Our beliefs are what create our experiences. As we change our beliefs, we alter our perception, our version of reality.

The human phenomenon is but the sum Of densely coiled layers of illusion Each of which winds itself on the supreme insanity That there are persons of any kind When all there can be is mindless mirrors Laughing and screaming as they parade about in an endless dream

My space chums think reality was once a primitive method of crowd control that got out of hand. In my view, it’s absurdity dressed up in a three-piece business suit.

Consensual reality is both fragile and elastic, and it heals like the skin of a bubble.

I am not a person who is about reality. I am about enhanced reality.