25 Quotes by Jerzy Kosinski
- And really the purpose of art - for me, fiction - is to alert, to indicate to stop, to say: Make certain that when you rush through you will not miss the moment which you might have had, or might still have.
- As I go to sleep I remember what my father said-that one can never be sure if one will awake. The way my health is now, this is becoming more and more real.
- Going around under an umbrella interferes with one's looking up at the sky.
- I can create countries just as I can create the actions of my characters. That is why a lot of travel seems to me a waste of time.
- Homelessness is a part of our American system. There should be nothing wrong with this condition as long as the individual is not sentenced to unnecessary suffering and punishment.
- Travel gives me the opportunity to walk through the sectors of cities where one can clearly see the passage of time.
- There must be no worse punishment to a totalitarian nation than the withdrawal of capital.
- There are many types of participation. One can observe so intensely that one becomes part of the action, but without being an active participant.
- The things I write are for those who are willing to accept a new relationship between the reader and the author.
- The principles of true art is not to portray, but to evoke.
- The principle of art is to pause, not bypass.
- 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.
- Physical comfort has nothing to do with any other comfort.
- 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.
- It is possible to stand around with a cocktail in one's hand and talk with everyone, which means with no one.
- I don't fret over lost time - I can always use the situations in a novel.
- I am inspired by human sexuality. The act itself is mechanical and holds little interest to me.
- I collect human relationships very much the way others collect fine art.
- Take a look at the books other people have in their homes.
- I do not gather things, I prefer to rent them rather than to possess them.
- I look back into past history, the stored experiences or products of the imagination. I look no further forward than the evening.
- 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.
- 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.
- In my photographs it is apparent that there was no posing at the moment I released the shutter.
- I do like to live in other people's homes. I enjoy being a guest. I am an inexpensive guest. When one lives in another's home he can enter into the psychic kingdom of that person.
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