Against the background of general freakishness the case of my particular freakishness was lost..

Man is profoundly dependent on the reflection of himself in another man's soul, be it even the soul of an idiot..

I became bold because I had absolutely nothing to lose: neither honors, nor earnings, nor friends. I had to find myself anew and rely only on myself,….

We say 'forest' but this word is made of the unknown, the unfamiliar, the unencompassed. The earth. Clods of dirt. Pebbles. On a clear day you rest a….

Don't be fooled by your own wisdom.

Any artist who respects himself ought to be, and in every sense of the term, an emigre..

To me, art almost always speaks more forcefully when it appears in an imperfect, accidental, and fragmentary way, somehow just signaling its presence….

Our element is unending immaturity..

Beauty beheld in solitude is even more lethal..

The difference between western and eastern intellectuals is that the former have not been kicked in the ass enough..

Not surprisingly, because too much attention to one object leads to distraction, this one object conceals everything else, and when we focus on one p….

Man does not fear death, only the suffering..

Serious literature does not exist to make life easy but to complicate it..

There were three of us; Witkiewicz, Bruno Schulz, and myself--the three muskateers of the Polish avant-garde between the wars. Only Witkiewicz remain….

A universal style is one that knows how to embrace lovingly those not quite developed..

I am a collection of the family's body parts..

To contradict, even in little matters, is the supreme necessity of art today..

Wherever I see some mystique, be it virtue or family, faith or fatherland, there I must commit some indecent act..

It is in the prime of youth that man sinks into empty phrases and grimaces. It's in this smithy that our maturity is forged..

Foolishness is a twin sister of wisdom..

I didn't go to the lectures. My valet, who was more distinguished than I, went instead..