Conversations with Jerzy Kosinski
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“I am curious about grownups, not children.”
“Take whatever you can from others, and when there is nothing left, forget about them.”
“Photography was the first foreign language of my artistic expression.”
“The principles of true art is not to portray, but to evoke.”
“The principle of art is to pause, not bypass.”
“I collect human relationships very much the way others collect fine art.”
“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.”
“I am going to put myself to sleep now for a bit longer than usual. Call it Eternity”
“I always have a sense of trembling, but so does a compass, after all.”
“When people claim to know who I am, I can no longer act freely.”
“I was pushing myself to extremes in order to discover my many selves.”
“Gatherings and, simultaneously, loneliness are the conditions of a writer's life.”
“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.”
“I suppress in my prose any language which calls attention to itself.”
“A novelist has a specific poetic license which also applies to his own life.”