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All Quotes by author - Jerzy Kosinski

" 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. "

" 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. "

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

" 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. "

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

" 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. "

" I do not gather things, I prefer to rent them rather than to possess them. "

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

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

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

" 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. "

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

" It is not sex by itself that interests me, but its particular role in American consciousness, and in my own life. "

" It is possible to stand around with a cocktail in one's hand and talk with everyone, which means with no one. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" Persons who have been homeless carry within them a certain philosophy of life which makes them apprehensive about ownership. "

" Physical comfort has nothing to do with any other comfort. "

" Take a look at the books other people have in their homes. "

" 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. "

" The principle of art is to pause, not bypass. "

" 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. "

" There must be no worse punishment to a totalitarian nation than the withdrawal of capital. "

" The things I write are for those who are willing to accept a new relationship between the reader and the author. "

" Travel gives me the opportunity to walk through the sectors of cities where one can clearly see the passage of time. "

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