Jerzy Kosinski Quotes

Polish - Novelist | June 14, 1933 - May 3, 1991

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

Jerzy Kosinski

MomentPosingShutterPhotographs

I look back into past history, the stored experiences or products of the imagination. I look no further forward than the evening.

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HistoryImaginationPastForward

I collect human relationships very much the way others collect fine art.

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ArtRelationshipsWayOthersHuman

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

RainLightSoulCloudsMeWeather

Going around under an umbrella interferes with one's looking up at the sky.

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SkyLookingUpGoingUmbrella

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

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LifeFindWillPossibleCompany

I don't fret over lost time - I can always use the situations in a novel.

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TimeI CanLostAlwaysOverNovel

Gatherings and, simultaneously, loneliness are the conditions of a writer's life.

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LifeLonelinessWriterConditions

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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StandHandPossibleTalkCocktail

The principle of art is to pause, not bypass.

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ArtPausePrincipleBypass

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

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ArtTruePrinciplesEvokePortray

A trait which differentiated New York from European cities was the incredible freedom and ease in which life, including sexual life, could be carried on, on many levels.

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LifeFreedomNew YorkNewEaseMany

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