The core of my writing is not art but truth.
Interpretation
The essence of my writing emphasizes honesty over artistic expression.
Philip K. Dick emphasizes that the primary goal of his writing is to uncover and convey truth rather than simply to create art for art's sake. This perspective highlights the belief that literature should serve as a medium to explore and reveal deeper truths about human existence, society, and reality, rather than merely fulfilling aesthetic purposes.
In practice
Using this quote when discussing the role of writers in society at a literary event.
We are living in a computer-programmed reality, and the only clue we have to it is when some variable is changed, and some alteration in reality occurs. We have the overwhelming impression that we were reliving the present - deja vu.
Don't try to solve serious matters in the middle of the night.
On some other world, possibly it is different. Better. There are clear good and evil alternatives. Not these obscure admixtures, these blends, with no proper tool by which to untangle the components.
"Do you have information that there's an android in the cast? I'd be glad to help you, and if I were an android would I be glad to help you?" "An android," he said, "doesn't care what happens to another android. That's one of the indications we look for." "Then," Miss Luft said, "you must be an android."
The universe is information and we are stationary in it, not three dimensional and not in space or time.
A man is an angel that has gone deranged.
And thus it came to pass that the Silmarils found their long homes: one in the airs of heaven, and one in the fires of the heart of the world, and one in the deep waters.
I adore the theater and I am a painter. I think the two are made for a marriage of love. I will give all my soul to prove this once more.
To be creative means to be in love with life. You can be creative only if you love life enough that you want to enhance its beauty, you want to bring a little more music to it, a little more poetry to it, a little more dance to it.
In the traditional Islamic world, the hierarchy of the arts was not based on whether they were "fine" or "industrial" or "minor". It was based upon the effect of art on the soul of the human being.
The arts are not a way to make a living. They are a very human way of making life more bearable. Practicing an art, no matter how well or badly, is a way to make your soul grow, for heaven's sake.
I think we're about ready for a new feeling to enter music. I think that will come from the Arabic world.
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