198 Quotes by Chaim Potok

Millions of people can draw. Art is whether there is a scream in you wanting to get out in a special way.

You can listen to silence, Reuven. I've begun to realize that you can listen to silence and learn from it. It has a quality and a dimension all its own. It talks to me sometimes. I feel myself alive in it. It talks. And I can hear it....You have to want to listen to it, and then you can hear it. It has a strange, beautiful texture. It doesn't always talk. Sometimes - sometimes it cries, and you can hear the pain of the world in it. It hurts to listen to it then. But you have to.

It was a large store and i did not like to go in it because its brightness was cold, like sunlight on distant ice.

A person must know who he is. A person must understand himself, improve himself, learn his weaknesses in order to overcome them. It is hard for a person to understand his own weaknesses.

> Why does everything that lives have to die?< So life would be precious, Asher. Something that is yours forever, is never precious.

It was no joy waking up after a dream about that man. He left a taste of thunder in my mouth.

When the alternative is possible disaster, a man must gamble.

Every man who has shown the world the way to beauty, to true culture, has been a rebel, a 'universal' without patriotism, without home who has found his people everywhere.

Every artist is a man who has freed himself from his family, his nation, his race. Every man who has shown the world the way to beauty, to true culture, has been a rebel, a ‘universal’ without patriotism, without home, who has found his people everywhere.