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 i...
It would have made me a whore to leave it incomplete. It would have made it easier to leave future work incomplete. It would have made it more and more difficult to draw upon that additional aching su...
I do not have many things that are meaningful to me. Except my doubts and my fears. And my art.
Art begins . . . when someone interprets, when someone sees the world through his own eyes. Art happens when what is seen becomes mixed with the inside of the person who is seeing it.
A life is measured by how it is lived for the sake of heaven.
Without the future there is no present, my father is saying. Without the future there can be no hope for redemption, and without hope for redemption there is nothing. A man must plan for the future. M...
Verbal fraud is worse than monetary fraud.
The tiny color planes in the Cézanne, like the pieces of a riddle, exquisitely explored, investigated, probed, resolved, each daub of color another piece of his answer to the greatest riddle of all: h...
The silence became unreal and seemed suddenly filled with a noise of its own, the noise of a too long silence.
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, he told them, and if it seems at times that He is hi...
Excuse me, you taught trope in Theresienstadt?
A man is born into this world with only a tiny spark of goodness in him. The spark is God, it is the soul; the rest is ugliness and evil, a shell. The spark must be guarded like a treasure, it must be...
Williamsburg was stifling, narcotized by the heat.
White is fearful to gaze upon for too long: it is the color of shrouds; it is all-color, the prism fused, undifferentiated, linked wave to wave and particle to particle.
The blink of an eye in itself is nothing. But the eye that blinks, that is something. A span of life is nothing. But the man who lives that span, he is something. He can fill that tiny span with meani...
On the fifteenth of August, Tisha B’av, there had been Arab disturbances in Jerusalem. The British said these had been in reaction to the demonstration staged by the followers of Jabotinsky at the Wes...
My father's right to shape my life had been taken from him by the same being who gave his own life meaning - the Rebbe.
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.
I have always had this sense of books as lined up and waiting, patiently waiting, for people to find them;
I felt a sudden momentary sense of unreality, as if the play yard, with its black asphalt floor and its white base lines, were my entire world now, as if all the previous years of my life had led me s...