💬 Quotes

"There is a haunting beauty in the way the jungle consumes the remnants of conflict, as if nature itself is trying to digest the trauma of the past."

"I looked at the window. The world was there, waiting to be painted. It was a world of masks. It was a world of suffering. It was a world of mystery."

"Art is a lie that makes us realize truth."

"A person has the right to express himself, but he does not have the right to destroy the world of his ancestors."

"You are a Lev. You are a Ladover Hasid. You are an artist. You are a Jew. How can you be all these things?"

"I am painting a picture of my mother’s agony. I am painting the pain of her life. I am painting the scream that is trapped inside her."

"There are no easy ways to be an artist. There are no easy ways to be a man."

"I’m on a roller coaster that only goes up, my friend."

"You don't get to choose if you get hurt in this world... but you do have some say in who hurts you. I like my choices."

"Some infinities are bigger than other infinities."

"That's the thing about pain. It demands to be felt."

"You are so busy being you that you have no idea how utterly unprecedented you are."

"The world is not a wish-granting factory."

"And the tree was happy."

"I wish that I could give you something... But I have nothing left. I am just an old stump. I am sorry."

"Come, Boy, come and climb up my trunk and swing from my branches and eat apples and play in my shade and be happy."

"I am too big to climb and play. I want to buy things and have fun. I want some money."

"Take my branches, Boy, and cut them off and build a house. Then you will be happy."

"And after a long time the boy came back again."

"Why, sometimes I've believed as many as six impossible things before breakfast."