Jerzy Kosinski Quotes

Jerzy Kosinski
Polish Novelist
Born: Jun 14, 1933
Died: May 3, 1991
Art Life Me Nothing Time Will
Related authors: Charles Dickens Ernest Hemingway Gustave Flaubert James Baldwin John Updike Leo Rosten Paulo Coelho Walter Scott
The principles of true art is not to portray, but to evoke. Jerzy Kosinski
Art Evoke True True Art Principles Portray
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
Me Soul Rain Clouds Light Weather Negatively Would London Strongly My Soul React Affect Cloudy Raining
I do not gather things, I prefer to rent them rather than to possess them. Jerzy Kosinski
Possess Rather Rent Than Prefer Them Things Gather
I am inspired by human sexuality. The act itself is mechanical and holds little interest to me. Jerzy Kosinski
Me Sexuality Inspired Am Itself Human Holds Interest Little Act Mechanical
There are many types of participation. One can observe so intensely that one becomes part of the action, but without being an active participant. Jerzy Kosinski
Action Active Types Part Observe Participant Participation Without Becomes Intensely Being Many
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. Jerzy Kosinski
Home People Psychic Live Enjoy Other Guest Enter Kingdom He Like Another Am Inexpensive Person Being Homes Lives
Travel gives me the opportunity to walk through the sectors of cities where one can clearly see the passage of time. Jerzy Kosinski
Time Me Travel Opportunity Walk Sectors Cities See Gives Through Clearly Passage Where
I look back into past history, the stored experiences or products of the imagination. I look no further forward than the evening. Jerzy Kosinski
History Past Imagination Back Further Look Past History Than Experiences Stored Products Forward Evening
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. Jerzy Kosinski
Art Me You Will Say Indicate Rush Purpose Through Had Miss Make Still Stop Fiction Which Might Really Certain Moment Alert
There must be no worse punishment to a totalitarian nation than the withdrawal of capital. Jerzy Kosinski
Nation Worse Punishment Must Totalitarian Withdrawal Than Capital
Physical comfort has nothing to do with any other comfort. Jerzy Kosinski
Nothing Other Physical Comfort Any
Persons who have been homeless carry within them a certain philosophy of life which makes them apprehensive about ownership. Jerzy Kosinski
Life Ownership Apprehensive Philosophy Carry About Within Makes Been Which Them Persons Certain Who Homeless
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. Jerzy Kosinski
Day Half Seven States Sphere Television Per Write Hours Half Hours Readers Average Certain Who United United States Watch
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. Jerzy Kosinski
Time Me Travel Characters Seems Countries Lot Just Create Actions Waste Waste Of Time Why
Gatherings and, simultaneously, loneliness are the conditions of a writer's life. Jerzy Kosinski
Life Loneliness Gatherings Writer Simultaneously Conditions
A novelist has a specific poetic license which also applies to his own life. Jerzy Kosinski
Life Own License Poetic Also His Which Novelist Specific

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