Stanisław Ignacy Witkiewicz
Stanisław Ignacy Witkiewicz (24 February 1885 – 18 September 1939), commonly known as Witkacy, was a Polish writer, painter, philosopher, playwright, novelist, and photographer active in the interwar period.
Born in Warsaw, Stanisław Ignacy Witkiewicz was a son of the painter, architect and an art critic Stanisław Witkiewicz. His mother was Maria Pietrzkiewicz Witkiewiczowa. Both of his parents were born in the Samogitian region of Lithuania. His godmother was the internationally famous actress Helena Modrzejewska.
Stanisław Ignacy Witkiewicz – a writer, playwright, poet, painter, photographer, philosopher and an art theoretician. Witkacy was a visionary ahead of his times, and yet a concretely pungent prankster, whose cutting-egde judgement and catastrophic prophesies allow new generations to rediscover his work time and again. One of the few Polish artists whose significance for world art history endures the test of time.
He died by commiting suicide upon learning of the Red Army’s attack on Poland, on the 18th of September, 1939 in the village of Jeziory, Polesie region (present-day Ukraine).
“społeczeństwo jest kobietą - musi mieć samca, który je gwałci - otchłanne myśli - nieprawda?”
“Są pewne pervers-natury, które literaturę, biorą jako muzykę, malarstwo tłumaczą na język literacki, a od muzyki doznają halucynacji wzrokowych.”
“Szczęście jest tylko przypadkowym spotkaniem bydlęcej bezmyślności z przypadkowym do kwadratu ułożeniem się zdarzeń dla danego indywiduum.”
“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.”
“There is not eternal damnation, the only rewards and punishments are right here in this world.”
“There must be repressed truth even in lies.”