Words matter. These are the best Jerzy Kosinski Quotes, and they’re great for sharing with your friends.
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.
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.
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.
There must be no worse punishment to a totalitarian nation than the withdrawal of capital.
A novelist has a specific poetic license which also applies to his own life.
I look back into past history, the stored experiences or products of the imagination. I look no further forward than the evening.
Going around under an umbrella interferes with one’s looking up at the sky.
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.
If we reduce social life to the smallest possible unit we will find that there is no social life in the company of one.
Persons who have been homeless carry within them a certain philosophy of life which makes them apprehensive about ownership.
It is possible to stand around with a cocktail in one’s hand and talk with everyone, which means with no one.
The principles of true art is not to portray, but to evoke.
There are many types of participation. One can observe so intensely that one becomes part of the action, but without being an active participant.
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.
I collect human relationships very much the way others collect fine art.
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.
Gatherings and, simultaneously, loneliness are the conditions of a writer’s life.
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.
Banks introduced the installment plan. The disappearance of cash and the coming of the credit card changed the shape of life in the United States.
In my photographs it is apparent that there was no posing at the moment I released the shutter.
The things I write are for those who are willing to accept a new relationship between the reader and the author.
I am inspired by human sexuality. The act itself is mechanical and holds little interest to me.
