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

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Source : Jerzy Kosinski, Tom Teicholz (1993). “Conversations with Jerzy Kosinski”, p.105, Univ. Press of Mississippi

Jerzy Kosinski

#Art Quotes #Creative Quotes #Principles Quotes

“Guns are the crutches of the impotent.”
“If I sleep for more than half an hour, I get horrible dreams in which I'm firing a gun and helicopters are coming down.”
“In some ways I think it would be very dignified if I went away for twenty years and then wrote my fourth book.”
“Common sense is a phrase employed to denote that degree of intelligence, sagacity, and prudence which is common to all men.”

Source : William Fleming, Charles Porterfield Krauth (1860). “The Vocabulary of Philosophy, Mental, Moral and Metaphysical: With Quotations and References; for the Use of Students”, p.95
“I believe every guitar player inherently has something unique about their playing. They just have to identify what makes them different and develop it.”
“The Lord also tells me to tell you in the mid 90's, about '94-'95, no later than that, God will destroy the homosexual community of America. [audience applauds] But He will not destroy it - with what many minds have thought Him to be, He will destroy it with fire. And many will turn and be saved, and many will rebel and be destroyed.”
“Before the first atomic bomb test, scientists took the time to calculate whether the blast would ignite the nitrogen in Earth's atmosphere and incinerate us all. The risk was low and the test went off, but Rees wonders what the odds would have had to be to discourage the bomb makers.”
“I got a fascination with food.”

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