“... an artist is a person first. He is an individual. If there is no person, there is no artist.”
Source: My Name Is Asher Lev
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Famous Chaim Potok Quotes
Source: The Chosen
“It is when you are angry that you must watch how you talk.”
Source: The Promise
“Art is a person's private vision expressed in aesthetic forms.”
Source: My Name Is Asher Lev
“Come, let us have some tea and continue to talk about happy things.”
Source: The Chosen
“Honest differences of opinion should never be permitted to destroy a friendship.”
Source: The Chosen
“Each work seems to give me the most trouble at the time I'm working on it.”
“I don't work on my Sabbath. I write five-and-a-half or six days a week.”
Source: Davita's Harp
“A man must fill his life with meaning, meaning is not automatically given to life.”
Source: The Chosen
“I have faith in the Torah. I am not afraid of truth.”
Source: In the Beginning
“A word is worth one coin, silence is worth two”
Source: The Chosen
“I do not know what evil is when it comes to art. I only know what is good art and what is bad art.”
Source: My Name Is Asher Lev
“In Russia I went to a great yeshiva, and in America I work in a carnival.”
Source: The Promise
“I'm constantly revising. Once the book is written and typed, I go through the entire draft again.”
“It is impossible to fuse totally with a culture for which you feel a measure of antagonism.”
“Yes, there is some thought about making a film of My Name Is Asher Lev.”