Wislawa Szymborska Quotes

I'm very interested in what makes people tick; people are so weird and complicated.

Human beings have speculated about the relationship between inspiration and insanity for centuries.

Guess what? Human beings are complex.

Long ago I'd said that I am "fascinated by the phantasmagoria of human personality" - this is perhaps even truer now than years ago.

I have devoted 30 years of research to how creative people live and work, to make more understandable the mysterious process by which they come up with new ideas and new things. [...] If I had to express in one word what makes their personalities different from others, it's complexity. They show tendencies of thought and action that in most people are segregated. They contain contradictory extremes; instead of being an "individual", each of them is a "multitude".

There's just some dysfunctionalism with artists.

Most of us aren't crazy psychotics, but most of us are a whole bunch of different people. I think when you are in a position of authority, that doesn't remove that from you.

I was just a very creative kid.

Art and culture and all of these things - they really matter. They shape your individuality.

You cannot simplify human intelligence, emotion, and growth. To watch the frills and furbelows of a human psyche is fascinating.

I am very clean, not exactly a neat freak, and creative.

I am a woman, and I am Jewish; I'm a film-maker, and I'm a writer, so you cannot just put me in one box.

Because I am fascinated by people and what makes them behave the way they do. I think it is one of the most fascinating things in the world.

In so complex a thing as human nature, we must consider it is hard to find rules without exception.

I think I'm a weird combination of deeply introverted and very daring. I can feel both those things working.

Everything becomes creative if the person doing the job is

Being actors we are dealing with the beauty and complexity of human confusion, no? And we are always trying to get answers.

Style supposes the reunion and the exercise of all the intellectual faculties. The style is the man.

There are so many selves in everybody, and just to explore and exploit one is wrong, dead wrong, for the creative person.

It is quite possible--overwhelmingly probable, one might guess--that we will always learn more about human life and personality from novels than from scientific psychology

For being different, it’s easy. But to be unique, it’s a complicated thing.

We are free when our actions emanate from our total personality, when they express it, when they resemble it in the indefinable way a work of art sometimes does the artist.

Everyone's a little crazy when you get inside their head... it's only a matter of degree.

No psychological grid works, because if you try to place every personality in one particular grid then you'd need about 4 billion grids because we are all so unique.

This is the time for every artist in every genre to do what he or she does loudly and consistently. It doesn't matter to me what your position is. You've got to keep asserting the complexity and the originality of life, and the multiplicity of it, and the facets of it. This is about being a complex human being in the world, not about finding a villain. This is no time for anything else than the best that you've got.