Conversations with Jerzy Kosinski
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Source: Oral Pleasure: Kosinski as Storyteller: Kosinski as Storyteller
“I am curious about grownups, not children.”
Source: Conversations with Jerzy Kosinski
Source: Blind Date
“Take whatever you can from others, and when there is nothing left, forget about them.”
Source: Conversations with Jerzy Kosinski
“Photography was the first foreign language of my artistic expression.”
“The principles of true art is not to portray, but to evoke.”
Source: Conversations with Jerzy Kosinski
“The principle of art is to pause, not bypass.”
Source: Passing By: Selected Essays, 1962-1991
“I collect human relationships very much the way others collect fine art.”
Source: Oral Pleasure: Kosinski as Storyteller: Kosinski as Storyteller
“I do not gather things, I prefer to rent them rather than to possess them.”
“In my photographs it is apparent that there was no posing at the moment I released the shutter.”
Source: Conversations with Jerzy Kosinski
“I am going to put myself to sleep now for a bit longer than usual. Call it Eternity”
Source: The devil tree
Source: Being There
“I always have a sense of trembling, but so does a compass, after all.”
Source: Conversations with Jerzy Kosinski
“When people claim to know who I am, I can no longer act freely.”
Source: The devil tree
“I was pushing myself to extremes in order to discover my many selves.”
Source: Conversations with Jerzy Kosinski
Source: Steps
“Gatherings and, simultaneously, loneliness are the conditions of a writer's life.”
Source: Being There
“Physical comfort has nothing to do with any other comfort.”
“I am inspired by human sexuality. The act itself is mechanical and holds little interest to me.”
Source: Oral Pleasure: Kosinski as Storyteller: Kosinski as Storyteller
“I suppress in my prose any language which calls attention to itself.”
Source: Conversations with Jerzy Kosinski
Source: Oral Pleasure: Kosinski as Storyteller: Kosinski as Storyteller
“A novelist has a specific poetic license which also applies to his own life.”
Source: Oral Pleasure: Kosinski as Storyteller: Kosinski as Storyteller