“Have thine own way, Lord! Have thine own way! Thou art the Potter and I am the clay.” — 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 have many things that are meaningful to me. Except my doubts and my fears. And my art. — 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
“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
“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
“Surely all art is the result of having been in danger, of having gone through an experience all the way to the… — 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
“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
“For all the pain you suffered, my mama. For all the torment of your past and future years, my mama. For all… — Chaim Potok Copy Share Image
“How can we expect to know everything about God?" He looked at me, his eyes narrowing. "I call that ambiguity," I said.… — 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
“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
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 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
“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
“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
“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 Image
“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 Image
I don't work on my Sabbath. I write five-and-a-half or six days a week. — Chaim Potok Copy Share Image
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 Image
“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 Image
“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 Image
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 Image
“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 Image
“I walked the streets and tasted the golden sun that lay across the city.” — Chaim Potok Copy Share Image
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 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
