"a soldier lives always for the next battle, because he knows that before it arrives impossible changes can occur in his favor."
— James A. Michener (Poland)

"I have my own world, which if I paint it, can be a nightmare in your eyes. Similarly, some consider discoteques a hell, others, the gates of heaven. What I paint is above all else, a spiritual self-portrait of me."
— Zdzislaw Beksinskiski

"I am obsessed with the process of creation."
— Zdzilsaw Beksinski (The Fantastic Art of Beksinski)

"Here (Poland), we have more winter than summer, more ice than sunshine; and Vodka is nothing but melted ice. Every nation drinks in this way: the Italians and the French drink the gold of melted sunshine, we the ice. That’s why a Pole glides through life as if on skates, and that is why he often staggers, for he finds it slippery. The Pole’s sorrow is so hot that he finds in necessary to cool it with vodka, the sorrow of other nations, the sorrow of other nations is so cold so they have to fuel it with wine"
— Karol Makuszynski