Chaim Potok
Chaim Potok
Chaim Potokwas an American Jewish author and rabbi. Potok is most famous for his first book The Chosen, which was listed on The New York Times’ best seller list for 39 weeks and sold more than 3,400,000 copies...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionNovelist
Date of Birth17 February 1929
CityBuffalo, NY
CountryUnited States of America
Chaim Potok quotes about
two silence coins
A word is worth one coin, silence is worth two
men meaning-of-life given
The span of a man's life - that is nothing. But what a man makes of that span - that is something. A man must make his own meaning for life. Meaning is not automatically given to life.
differences lost-friendship honest
Honest differences of opinion should never be permitted to destroy a friendship.
reality years two
Two hundred or more years ago most people on the planet were never aware of any reality other than the one into which they were brought up.
father papa world
It's not a pretty world, Papa.' 'I've noticed,' my father said softly.
art special way
Art is whether or not there is a scream in him wanting to get out in a special way.
accidents blink events eye fortuitous found guess life meet reminds
Life is like the blink of an eye. What is that worth? Nothing. But the eye that blinks - that is something. I guess I blinked, on accident. Sometimes, though, I have found accidents to be the most fortuitous events in my life. You meet the one person who reminds you what you are, what you do, how to be happy.
american-author answers cease dilemmas effective normal offer systems versions
Apocalyptic versions are fall-back systems when the normal systems cease to offer effective answers to the dilemmas of existence.
silence quality dimensions
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.
home men people
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.
forever
Something that is yours forever is never precious
meaningful art doubt
I do not have many things that are meaningful to me. Except my doubts and my fears. And my art.
pain creativity hands
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. Power to amuse and horrify. There was in that hand the demonic and the divine at one and the same time. The demonic and the divine were two aspects of the same force. Creation was demonic and divine. Creativity was demonic and divine. I was demonic and divine.
art eye world
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.