“As long as you understand Ferdydurke as a battle with convention, it will trot calmly down the well beaten path; but if you understand that man creates himself with another man in the sense of the wildest debauchery, Ferdydurke will neigh and leap forward as if you had jabbed it with spur, carrying you off into the realm of unpredictable. Ferdydurke is more a form-element than a form-convention.”- Witold Gombrowicz

“Absurdity is present in everything we touch, in our way of creating (which became cerebral and repugnant) in our talking about art (there is too much to talk), in all the mechanisms of our little artistic world, that gigantic machinery made up of 100,000 doctors, docents, interpreters, glossators, sucking pale blood from the anemic bodies of a thousands of ordinary artists.”- Witold Gombrowicz