Witkiewicz Quotes & Sayings

The moth's enormous wings are velveted in a rich, warm, brown, and edged in bands of blue and pink delicate as a watercolour wash. A startling 'eyespot,' immense, and deep blue melding to an almost translucent yellow, luxuriates in the centre of each hind wing. The effect is one of a masculine splendour foreign to the butterflies, a fragility unfurled to strength — Annie Dillard

Daniel Clemente offers family shows that are specially designed for people of all age groups. Family magic shows can be performed anywhere-camp ground or indoor. — Daniel

The one thing is fiction in a novel and the other thing is reality. With fiction you don't make a fuss - you can 'beat it' and there's never enough. At least in my opinion - cause there are people, who complain about style intensity in literature: they prefer cereals with milk than abyssinian bitches roasted alive on bringhausers and watered with ya-yoo juice. — Stanislaw Ignacy Witkiewicz

As a senior in high school my counselor recommended that I soften my science and math direction with an art course. Fortunately my high school offered a new course in B&W photography, so I opted for that instead of art, towards which I had an aversion. Composition is something that comes pretty naturally to me and I appreciate ordered chaos: the photo class turned out to be fun. — Peter Menzel

Faith is an ongoing practice - a journey, not a destination. — Brian Scrone

Corporatization is the descendant of industrialization. — Serj Tankian

There is not eternal damnation, the only rewards and punishments are right here in this world. — Stanislaw Ignacy Witkiewicz

The Oscar changed everything. Better salary, working with better people, better projects, more exposure, less privacy. — Kathy Bates

Poetry is a mock of a cry at finding a million dollars and a mock of a laugh at losing it. — Carl Sandburg

The price you pay for waltzing with the devil is residing in hell. — Lorraine Heath

There must be repressed truth even in lies. — Stanislaw Ignacy Witkiewicz

There were three of us; Witkiewicz, Bruno Schulz, and myself
the three muskateers of the Polish avant-garde between the wars. Only Witkiewicz remains to be discovered. — Witold Gombrowicz

She believed in me. Where I had doubt and fear, she had faith. — Joanne Owen

Why am I exactly this and not that being? at this point of unlimited space and in this moment of infinite time? in this group of beings, on this planet? Why do I exist if I could have been without existence? — Stanislaw Ignacy Witkiewicz

There is no moment of my life when you are not a part of me; you hold my heart; you guard my soul; you guide my dreams so tenderly
And if my will might be done, and all I long for could come true, with perfect joy I would choose to share eternity with you. — Robert Sexton

Yet what use against the deceit of a state are the memories of a child? — Aminatta Forna