Jerzy Kosinski Quotes

• The principle of art is to pause, not bypass.

  Jerzy Kosinski

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• I always have a sense of trembling, but so does a compass, after all.

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• I rent everything, other than the gift of life itself, which was given to me without any predictable lease, a gift that can be withdrawn at any time.

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• Take a look at the books other people have in their homes.

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• The things I write are for those who are willing to accept a new relationship between the reader and the author.

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• It is possible to stand around with a cocktail in one’s hand and talk with everyone, which means with no one.

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• The principles of true art is not to portray, but to evoke.

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• Travel gives me the opportunity to walk through the sectors of cities where one can clearly see the passage of time.

  Jerzy Kosinski

• There must be no worse punishment to a totalitarian nation than the withdrawal of capital.

  Jerzy Kosinski

• There are many types of participation. One can observe so intensely that one becomes part of the action, but without being an active participant.

  Jerzy Kosinski

• The planned sit-down reception is an artificial forum where one is presented with a limited number of persons with whom he can hold a conversation.

  Jerzy Kosinski

• Physical comfort has nothing to do with any other comfort.

  Jerzy Kosinski

• Persons who have been homeless carry within them a certain philosophy of life which makes them apprehensive about ownership.

  Jerzy Kosinski

• Mapplethorpe presented the body as a sexual object, separating it from the humanity of the person. He added nothing to photography as a medium. I hold his work in low regard.

  Jerzy Kosinski

• It is not sex by itself that interests me, but its particular role in American consciousness, and in my own life.

  Jerzy Kosinski

• In my photographs it is apparent that there was no posing at the moment I released the shutter.

  Jerzy Kosinski

• In London, the weather would affect me negatively. I react strongly to light. If it is cloudy and raining, there are clouds and rain in my soul.

  Jerzy Kosinski

• If we reduce social life to the smallest possible unit we will find that there is no social life in the company of one.

  Jerzy Kosinski

• I write for a certain sphere of readers in the United States who on average watch seven and a half hours of multichannel television per day.

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• I don’t fret over lost time – I can always use the situations in a novel.

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Jerzy Kosinski (33)

Birth:	14th June, 1933
Death:	3rd May, 1991
Nationality:	American
Profession:	Novelist, Professor, Screenwriter

About

Jerzy Kosinski was born in Łódź, Poland. He was an award-winning Polish-born American novelist and two-time President of the American Chapter of P.E.N. He earned two graduate degrees in history and sociology at the University of Łódź. He served as a professor of Sociology at Polish Academy of Sciences from 1955-57. He also received grants from the Guggenheim Fellowship in 1967 and the Ford Foundation in 1968. In 1970, he won the American Academy of Arts and Letters award for literature. He wrote several novels include: The Painted Bird, Steps (Winner of the National Book Award for Fiction), Being There, The devil tree, Cockpit, Pinball, and The hermit of 69th Street. He wrote a film, entitled Being There.

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