Jane Campion Quotes

So, as one sees, I by no means deprive my world of stubborn reality, if I merely call it a world of ideas.

The longer you look at an object, the more abstract it becomes, and, ironically, the more real.

We're not in the physical world. The physical world is in us. We create the physical world when we perceive it, when we observe it. And also we create this experience in our imagination. And when I say "we," I don't mean the physical body or the brain, but a deeper domain of consciousness which conceives, governs, constructs and actually becomes everything that we call physical reality.

The mind does not create what it perceives, any more than the eye creates the rose.

The physical world, including our bodies, is a response of the observer. We create our bodies as we create the experience of our world.

I try to find the picture, not create it.

Abstraction brings the world into more complex, variable relations; it can extract beauty, alternative topographies, ugliness, and intense actualities from seeming nothingness.

Abstraction is real, probably more real than nature.

Draw what you see.

Everything you can imagine is real.

We live in worlds that we have forged and composed. It's much more true than any of the species that you see. I mean, it seems to me that one of the most distinctive features of human intelligence is the capacity to imagine, to project out of our own immediate circumstances and to bring to mind things that aren't present here and now.

Words are mere shadows cast by ideas. But the ideas they represent are real.

Sunlight and seeing something that was a thought become a thing and materialize - that makes me come alive.

The Universe does not know if the vibration you are offering is because of what you are imagining, or because of what you are observing.

If you can imagine a thing, conjure it up in space then you can make it... The universe is real but you can't see it. You have to imagine it. Then you can be realistic about reproducing it.

To visualize is to see what is not there, what is not real - a dream. To visualize is, in fact, to make visual lies. Visual lies, however, have a way of coming true.

Illusions... are simple facts, but they have been created by the mind, by the spirit, and they are one of the justifications of the new spatial configuration.

See all these buildings, Russell? All these buildings were once a drawing on a piece of paper, and before that they were an idea in someone’s head. Any idea that you have, you can make manifest.

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

The picture is in your head, in your imagination, everything.

I began to wonder whether anything truly existed, whether reality wasn't an unformed and gelatinous substance only half-captured by my senses....If that were true, each of us was living in absolute isolation. The thought terrified me. I was consoled by the idea that I could take that gelatin and mold it to create anything I wanted...At times I felt that the universe fabricated from the power of the imagination had stronger and more lasting contours than the blurred realm of the flesh-and-blood creatures around me.

The universe is real, but you can't see it. You have to imagine it.

Imagination is the beginning of reality.

The more we see the more we must be able to imagine, and the more we imagine, the more we must think we see.

The map appears to us more real than the land.