Quotes by Polish authors

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Daniel Libeskind

"I studied architecture in New York. So, really I was very moved, like everyone else, to try to contribute something that has that resonance and profundity of it means to all of us"

Daniel Libeskind, Architect

Daniel Libeskind

"And it is very moving because one has to see the site not as just another site of development but it is a very special site. It is a site that souls and hearts of all Americans"

Daniel Libeskind, Architect

Daniel Libeskind

"I don't get to sleep when I'm in New York. Really. I'm living on adrenaline"

Daniel Libeskind, Architect

Daniel Libeskind

"Larry wanted us to reposition the tower. We wouldn't, and won't. He's been holding back our fees. We want to get paid. And that's it. It'll get solved and we'll carry on with planning Ground Zero"

Daniel Libeskind, Architect

Daniel Libeskind

"Winning a competition in architecture is a ticket to oblivion. It's just an idea. Ninety-nine per cent never get built"

Daniel Libeskind, Architect

Daniel Libeskind

"When you're a kid with artistic yearnings brought up in the Bronx, you don't get fed up too easily"

Daniel Libeskind, Architect

Daniel Libeskind

"There are more people living in Lower Manhattan now than before the terrorist attacks. That's faith for you. There's such a strong spirit here"

Daniel Libeskind, Architect

Daniel Libeskind

"It's a fantastic responsibility and a wonderful moment"

Daniel Libeskind, Architect

Daniel Libeskind

"And of course I like Berlin a lot. It's such an interesting city"

Daniel Libeskind, Architect

Daniel Libeskind

"And then, build a bustling wonderful city of the 21st century, with a restoration of a spectacular skyline, which Manhattan, of course, needs. So, that is really the design as a whole"

Daniel Libeskind, Architect

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

Jerzy Kosinski, Novelist

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

Jerzy Kosinski, Novelist

Daniel Libeskind

"Well, I didn't want to have the reminder sort of in the sky, so that people would forever look at it. I wanted to have - really to create a city from the bottom up. From that foundation, which held, from the democratic power of what the site really is"

Daniel Libeskind, Architect

Daniel Libeskind

"The Spiral Gallery may happen, too. It is not dependent on government funding"

Daniel Libeskind, Architect

"A trait which differentiated New York from European cities was the incredible freedom and ease in which life, including sexual life, could be carried on, on many levels"

Jerzy Kosinski, Novelist

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

Jerzy Kosinski, Novelist

"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"

Jerzy Kosinski, Novelist

"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, Novelist

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

Jerzy Kosinski, Novelist

"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"

Jerzy Kosinski, Novelist

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

Jerzy Kosinski, Novelist

"As I go to sleep I remember what my father said-that one can never be sure if one will awake. The way my health is now, this is becoming more and more real"

Jerzy Kosinski, Novelist

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

Jerzy Kosinski, Novelist

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

Jerzy Kosinski, Novelist

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

Jerzy Kosinski, Novelist

"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"

Jerzy Kosinski, Novelist

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

Jerzy Kosinski, Novelist

"A novelist has a specific poetic license which also applies to his own life"

Jerzy Kosinski, Novelist

"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"

Jerzy Kosinski, Novelist

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

Jerzy Kosinski, Novelist

"I am inspired by human sexuality. The act itself is mechanical and holds little interest to me"

Jerzy Kosinski, Novelist

"When you jump for joy, beware that no one moves the ground from beneath your feet"

Stanislaw Lec, Poet

"The window to the world can be covered by a newspaper"

Stanislaw Lec, Poet

"People find life entirely too time-consuming"

Stanislaw Lec, Poet

"First of all, I choose the great roles, and if none of these come, I choose the mediocre ones, and if they don't come, I choose the ones that pay the rent"

Stanislaw Lec, Poet

"You can close your eyes to reality but not to memories"

Stanislaw Lec, Poet

"When smashing monuments, save the pedestals - they always come in handy"

Stanislaw Lec, Poet

"You must first have a lot of patience to learn to have patience"

Stanislaw Lec, Poet

"The first requisite for immortality is death"

Stanislaw Lec, Poet

"Mankind deserves sacrifice - but not of mankind"

Stanislaw Lec, Poet

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