Mieczyslaw Kasprzyk

“One should never mistake pattern for meaning.”
― Iain Banks, The Hydrogen Sonata

“It's true that even though I'm a world unto myself, I've just a speck of dust in the avalanche of events. But nothing will ever force me to think like a speck of dust!”
― Stanisław Lem, Hospital of the Transfiguration

“it is the West’s provincialism, which leads it to perceive the rest of the continent as a failed copy of itself”
― Andrzej Stasiuk

“I wanted to tell you that art is the most harmless activity of mankind. But I suddenly recalled that art was often used for propaganda purposes by totalitarian systems. I wanted to tell you about the extraordinary sensitivity of an artist, but I recalled that Hitler was a painter and Stalin used to write sonnets...
“Each scientific discovery opens doors behind which we are confronted with new closed doors. Art does not solve problems but makes us aware of their existence...”
― Magdalena Abakanowicz