"Not surprisingly, because too much attention to one……" — Witold Gombrowicz
"Not surprisingly, because too much attention to one object leads to distraction, this one object conceals everything else, and when we focus on one point on the map we know that all other points are eluding us."
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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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A universal style is one that knows how to embrace lovingly those not quite developed.
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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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