He taught them that the purpose of a man is to make his life holy--every aspect of his life: eating, drinking praying, sleeping. God is everywhere, h….

I think most serious writers, certainly in the modern period, use their own lives or the lives of people close to them or lives they have heard about….

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….

I get up around 6:30. I work from about 8:00 to 1:00, take a break for lunch, work again until about 5:00, and then go for a long walk and have dinne….

Reuven listen to me. The Talmud says that a person should do two things for himself. One is to acquire a teacher. Do you remember the other." "Choose….

... an artist is a person first. He is an individual. If there is no person, there is no artist..

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….

Something that is yours forever is never precious.

A word is worth one coin, silence is worth two.

In other words, Judaism is not Calvinism..

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..

A writer is a strange instrument of our species, a harp of sorts, fine-tuned to the dark contradictions of life..

…everything has a past. Everything – a person, an object, a word, everything. If you don’t know the past, you can’t understand the present and plan p….

I do not have many things that are meaningful to me. Except my doubts and my fears. And my art..

As a species we are always hungry for new knowledge..

All of us grow up in particular realities - a home, family, a clan, a small town, a neighborhood. Depending upon how we're brought up, we are either ….

Art is a person's private vision expressed in aesthetic forms..

To the extent that I come from a deeply religious tradition and have been contending with those beginnings all of my life - that constitutes the subj….

Art begins . . . when someone interprets, when someone sees the world through his own eyes. Art happens when what is seen becomes mixed with the insi….

Art is whether or not there is a scream in him wanting to get out in a special way..

I looked at my right hand, the hand with which I painted. There was power in that hand. Power to create and destroy. Power to bring pleasure and pain….