Quote by Jerzy Kosinski Download Open image “I do not gather things, I prefer to rent them rather than to possess them.” — Jerzy Kosinski ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 4.6 out of 5 (10 ratings) Copy quoteShare
I try not to be sentimental and obsessive about possessions. I love collecting, but I hate owning. — Karl Lagerfeld Copy Share Image
I don't collect anything. I collect people, I think. I'm very social and I like seeing a lot of people. — Victor Garber Copy Share Image
I don't collect things for the sake of collecting. I don't really see the point. — Michael Anthony Copy Share Image
Possessing things is not that interesting. Living in a grand environment to show myself and others that I have wealth has zero appeal. — Nicolas Berggruen Copy Share Image
As you go along, you literally collect places. I'm fed up with going to places; I shan't go to anymore. — Bruce Chatwin Copy Share Image
I don't want to own anything until I find a place where me and things go together. — Truman Capote Copy Share Image
Unnecessary possessions are unnecessary burdens. If you have them, you have to take care of them! There is great freedom in simplicity of living.… — Peace Pilgrim Copy Share Image
I think we all have a tendency to have things. Even, I've noticed, people on the street collect things. So I think there's some… — Michael C. McMillen Copy Share Image
I think I've always had an obsession with collecting, as most people do. — Jonathan Anderson Copy Share Image
I don't really have a domestic inclination. Even my apartment has a semblance of a storage facility. It's just stacks, there are no bookshelves,… — Sufjan Stevens Copy Share Image
“There should be no promise of a plot. Plot is extraordinary, while chance is ordinary.” — Jerzy Kosiński Copy Share Image
I look back into past history, the stored experiences or products of the imagination. I look no further forward than the evening. — Jerzy Kosinski Copy Share Image
“He had found the one calm place in the midst of the storm, a quiet voice calling him to earth.” — Jerzy Kosiński Copy Share Image
“When I saw them in Africa, I thought these birds were the greatest fliers of all. Hardly beating their wings, they fly for hours,… — Jerzy Kosiński Copy Share Image
“That's why she keeps her nails long, she says, to be able to scratch and claw.” — Jerzy Kosiński Copy Share Image
Travel gives me the opportunity to walk through the sectors of cities where one can clearly see the passage of time. — Jerzy Kosinski Copy Share Image
Going around under an umbrella interferes with one's looking up at the sky. — Jerzy Kosinski Copy Share Image
“Against the background of bland colors he projected an unfadable blackness. In a world of men with harrowed faces, with smashed eyes, bloody, bruised… — Jerzy Kosinski Copy Share Image
Mapplethorpe presented the body as a sexual object, separating it from the humanity of the person. He added nothing to photography as a medium.… — Jerzy Kosinski Copy Share Image
Banks introduced the installment plan. The disappearance of cash and the coming of the credit card changed the shape of life in the United… — Jerzy Kosinski Copy Share Image
I always have a sense of trembling, but so does a compass, after all. — Jerzy Kosinski Copy Share Image