
“Of course painting is ridiculous. But it’s the only way I've got to get closer to life.”
1960's, Conversations with Samuel Beckett and Bram van Velde' (1965 - 1969)
“Of course painting is ridiculous. But it’s the only way I've got to get closer to life.”
1960's, Conversations with Samuel Beckett and Bram van Velde' (1965 - 1969)
“The end of learning is to know God, and out of that knowledge to love Him and imitate Him.”
Quote reported in Josiah Hotchkiss Gilbert, Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers (1895), p. 364
The Bomb and the Opportunity (March 1946)
“I know God only as he became human, so shall I have him in no other way.”
Das Marburger religionsgesprach 1529: Versuch einer Rekonstruction (Leipzig, 1929), p. 27; also LW 38, 3-90
“The greatest honor which can be paid to God is to know and imitate him.”
Sentences of Sextus
“I hand him a lyric and get out of his way.”
On his partnership with Richard Rodgers, widely quoted, for example in Richard Rodgers & Oscar Hammerstein II, 2007-12-12, 2004 http://c250.columbia.edu/c250_celebrates/remarkable_columbians/rodgers_hammerstein.html,
“Art is whether or not there is a scream in him wanting to get out in a special way.”
Source: My Name Is Asher Lev