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.
Perhaps the meaning of all human activity lies in the artistic consciousness, in the pointless and selfless creative act? Perhaps our capacity to create is evidence that we ourselves were created in the image and likeness of God?
Even when poetry has a meaning, as it usually has, it may be inadvisable to draw it out. Perfect understanding will sometimes almost extinguish pleasure.
I think of myself as a performance artist. I hate being called a pop star. I hate that.
All great art is the work of the whole living creature, body and soul, and chiefly of the soul.
I never knew I was a surrealist till Andre Breton came to Mexico and told me I was.
The only way to avoid being unhappy is to close yourself up in Art and to count for nothing all the rest.
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