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

 ― Witold Gombrowicz

“Great! I've written something stupid, but I haven't signed a contract with anyone to produce solely wise and perfect works. I gave vent to my stupidity...and here I am, reborn.”
― Witold Gombrowicz, Ferdydurke 

“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, because I could rely on no one else. My form is my solitude.”
― Witold Gombrowicz 

“To contradict, even in little matters, is the supreme necessity of art today. ”
― Witold Gombrowicz, A Kind of Testament 

“Serious literature does not exist to make life easy but to complicate it.”
― Witold Gombrowicz

“Man is profoundly dependent on the reflection of himself in another man's soul, be it even the soul of an idiot.”
― Witold Gombrowicz, Ferdydurke