79 Quotes by Jerzy Kosiński

It seems that what I really want is a drug that will increase my consciousness of others, not myself.

I felt lost in this maze. In the world into which Gavrila was initiating me, human aspirations and expectations were entangled with each other like the roots and branches of great trees in a thick forest, each tree struggling for more moisture from the soil and more sunshine from the sky.

Can the imagination, any more than the boy, be held prisoner ?"- from the foreword to the 1976 edition of "The Painted Bird

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

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

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

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

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

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