"In a completely sane world, madness is the only freedom.“

-J. G. Ballard

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"The surrealists, and the modern movement in painting as a whole, seemed to offer a key to the strange postwar world with its threat of nuclear war. The dislocations and ambiguities, in cubism and abstract art as well as the surrealists, reminded me of my childhood in Shanghai."

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"I don't think it's possible to touch people's imagination today by aesthetic means."

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