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Jerzy Kosinski

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

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

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"For his heart was in his work, and the heart giveth grace unto every art."

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"One writes music because winter is eternal and because, if one didn't, the wolves and blizzards will be at one's throat all the sooner."

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"Not everyone who loves music can play the tune."

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"It is in this power of saying everything, and yet saying nothing too plainly, that the perfection of art consists."

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"The movies remind me of the Triangle Club at Princeton. I used to belong to it, and we always started out firm in our decision to create new and startling things. We always ended up by producing the same old show. In the beginning, our enthusiasm and ideals discarded as rubbish all the old fossilized plots."

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"A stone is ingrained with geological and historical memories."

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"Music is your own experience, your own thoughts, your wisdom. If you don't live it, it won't come out of your horn. They teach you there's a boundary line to music. But, man, there's no boundary line to art."

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"Art is something that opens up and enhances your emotions and that's what I like to think I'm doing."

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"The art of art, the glory of expression and the sunshine of the light of letters, is simplicity."

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"Persons who have been homeless carry within them a certain philosophy of life which makes them apprehensive about ownership."
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"Physical comfort has nothing to do with any other comfort."
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"There are many types of participation. One can observe so intensely that one becomes part of the action, but without being an active participant."
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"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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"Take a look at the books other people have in their homes."
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"It is not sex by itself that interests me, but its particular role in American consciousness, and in my own life."
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"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."
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"There must be no worse punishment to a totalitarian nation than the withdrawal of capital."
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"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."
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"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."
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