Jerzy Kosinski

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

— Jerzy Kosinski

#bypass #pause #principle

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. ↗

— Jerzy Kosinski

#card #cash #changed #coming #credit

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

— Jerzy Kosinski

#gatherings #life #loneliness #simultaneously #writer

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. ↗

— Jerzy Kosinski

#condition #homelessness #individual #long #nothing

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

#characters #countries #create #i #i can

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

— Jerzy Kosinski

#collect #fine #fine art #human #human relationships

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

— Jerzy Kosinski

#i #i do #possess #prefer #rather

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

#clouds #cloudy #i #light #london

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

— Jerzy Kosinski

#i #moment #photographs #posing #released

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

— Jerzy Kosinski

#evoke #portray #principles #true #true art