My name is asher lev Quotes

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

“Something that is yours forever is never precious”

“It's not a pretty world, Papa.''I've noticed,' my father said softly.”

“I walked the streets and tasted the golden sun that lay across the city.”

“An artist is a person first.”

“An artist has got to get acquainted with himself just as much as he can. It is no easy job, for it is not a present-day habit of humanity.”

“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.”

“How should a Jew feel? There we went through the seven gates of hell for matzos. Here I stand in matzos over my head. So how should a Jew feel? You are an angel of God, and the Rebbe, he should live and be well, the Rebbe made miracles and wonders for me. At night, I tell myself it is a dream and I am afraid to wake up. If it is a dream, better I should not wake up, better I should die in my sleep.”

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

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