"A universal style is one that knows how……" — Witold Gombrowicz
"A universal style is one that knows how to embrace lovingly those not quite developed."
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Witold Gombrowicz
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25 Quotes by Witold Gombrowicz
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You are ugly when you love her, you are beautiful and fresh, vital and free, modern and poetic when you…
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To contradict, even in little matters, is the supreme necessity of art today.
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I became bold because I had absolutely nothing to lose: neither honors, nor earnings, nor friends. I had to find…
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I didn't go to the lectures. My valet, who was more distinguished than I, went instead.
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To me, art almost always speaks more forcefully when it appears in an imperfect, accidental, and fragmentary way, somehow just…
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There were three of us; Witkiewicz, Bruno Schulz, and myself--the three muskateers of the Polish avant-garde between the wars. Only…
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When one does not have what one wants, one must want what one has”: “I have had, you see, to…
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It is in the prime of youth that man sinks into empty phrases and grimaces. It's in this smithy that…
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If he [the Artist] were to take up the pen it would be...to better express his individuality and explain it…
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Don't be fooled by your own wisdom
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Any artist who respects himself ought to be, and in every sense of the term, an emigre.
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I could have protested of course, who says I couldn't--I could have risen to my feet at any moment, walked…
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More Developed Quotes
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The countenances of children, like those of animals, are masks, not faces, for they have not yet developed a significant…
— Wystan Hugh Auden
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Basketball is like war in that offensive weapons are developed first, and it always takes a while for the defense…
— Red Auerbach
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Men are at every stage of evolution, from the most barbarous to the most developed; men are found of lofty…
— Annie Besant
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Research has shown time and time again that infants who receive the high-quality child care and early education programs do…
— Judy Biggert
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An idea that is developed and put into action is more important than an idea that exists only as an…
— Edward de Bono
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Hollywood didn't know if I was an actor or a nut or if I was this crazy character I was…
— Nicolas Cage
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As in the rankest soil the most beautiful flowers are grown, so in the dark soil of poverty the choicest…
— James Allen
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I think developed countries - so-called developed countries - should reflect upon the way of living and the waste of…
— Hugo Chavez
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Oil is a very valuable resource for life - electric heaters. We must have to transition ourselves to a post-oil…
— Hugo Chavez
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We must reduce the emissions 100 percent. In Venezuela, the emissions are currently insignificant compared to the emissions of the…
— Hugo Chavez
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If we have reason to believe someone is preparing an attack against the U.S., has developed that capability, harbours those…
— Dick Cheney
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I have developed a very strong partiality for the dead: they don't talk back, they don't sue, and they don't…
— Ron Chernow
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