“Asher Lev, an artist is a person first. He is an individual. If there is no person, there is no artist.” — Chaim Potok Copy Share Image
“Millions of people can draw. Art is whether there is a scream in you wanting to get out in a special way.” — Chaim Potok Copy Share Image
Art is whether or not there is a scream in him wanting to get out in a special way. — Chaim Potok Copy Share Image
“I’ve never known of a serious artist who was happy. Except maybe Rubens.” — Chaim Potok Copy Share Image
... an artist is a person first. He is an individual. If there is no person, there is no artist. — Chaim Potok Copy Share Image
I do not know what evil is when it comes to art. I only know what is good art and what is… — Chaim Potok Copy Share Image
Art begins . . . when someone interprets, when someone sees the world through his own eyes. Art happens when what is… — Chaim Potok Copy Share Image
“Do not expect redemption if you enter the world of art. Redemption is death to art. Tranquillity is the poison the artist… — Chaim Potok Copy Share Image
“The customs people were angered by my drawings. I told them I didn’t make the drawings to cause trouble; I was an… — Chaim Potok Copy Share Image
“An artist has got to get acquainted with himself just as much as he can. It is no easy job, for it… — Chaim Potok Copy Share Image
“The paintings had a strange quality: they were figurative but there were no figures in them. They looked as if they might… — Chaim Potok Copy Share Image
“Like the French frontier police who thought that some of Picasso’s Cubist drawings were plans of the country’s defenses.” — Chaim Potok Copy Share Image
“an artist, too, must see the world whole, he must somehow learn to see during the blinks, he must see where no… — Chaim Potok Copy Share Image
“You paint it,” he responds. “You are a specialist in darkness.” I tell him, “I didn’t live through it.” He says, “We… — Chaim Potok Copy Share Image
“It is only by drawing often, drawing everything, drawing incessantly,” I read in the collection of letters written by Camille Pissarro to… — Chaim Potok Copy Share Image
“I told her of a letter Camille Pissarro once wrote to his son about Monet’s dealers, who were insisting he exhibit only… — Chaim Potok Copy Share Image
“Every artist is a man who has freed himself from his family, his nation, his race. Every man who has shown the… — Chaim Potok Copy Share Image
“Become a great artist. That is the only way to justify what you are doing to everyone's life.'... I did not understand… — Chaim Potok Copy Share Image
“DW: Some critics have written that they don’t admire your so-called simple style. You have contended that your writing is a result of much… — Chaim Potok Copy Share
“I cannot pray. I talk to God through my sculpture and painting.' 'That's also prayer.' He smiled faintly, the morning sun on his face.… — Chaim Potok Copy Share
And these two elements are at odds with one another because Freud is utterly adversary to almost all the ways of structuring the human… — Chaim Potok Copy Share
“How should a Jew feel? There we went through the seven gates of hell for matzos. Here I stand in matzos over my head.… — Chaim Potok Copy Share
“In our time... a man whose enemies are faceless bureaucrats almost never wins. It is our equivalent to the anger of the gods in… — Chaim Potok Copy Share
Seeds must be sown everywhere. Only some will bear fruit. But there would not be the fruit from the few had the many not… — Chaim Potok Copy Share
“Basically it’s none of our business how somebody manages to grow, if only he does grow, if only we’re on the trail of the… — Chaim Potok Copy Share
What I have in advance are people I want to write about and a problem or problems that I see those people encountering and… — Chaim Potok Copy Share
“Millions of people can draw. Art is whether there is a scream in you wanting to get out in a special way.” — Chaim Potok Copy Share
I will go wherever the truth leads me. It is secular scholarship, Rebbe; it is not the scholarship of tradition. In secular scholarship there… — Chaim Potok Copy Share
… the world will indulge you just so long Asher Lev. Then it will stop. You will simply have to grow accustomed to that truth. — Chaim Potok Copy Share
No one knows he is fortunate until he becomes unfortunate, that's the way the world is. — Chaim Potok Copy Share
