Seeds must be sown everywhere. Only some will bear fruit. But there would not be the fruit from the few had the many not been sown

… the world will indulge you just so long Asher Lev. Then it will stop. You will simply have to grow accustomed to that truth.

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.

Truth has to be given in riddles. People can't take truth if it comes charging at them like a bull. The bull is always killed. You have to give people the truth in a riddle, hide it so they go looking for it and find it piece by piece; that way they learn to live with it.

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.

Something that is yours forever is never precious

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