Environmentalism is a dangerous ideology endangering human freedom.
Art is long. Life is short. A picture can become for us a highway between a particular thing and a universal feeling.
In the inner place where true artists create there exists a pure child.
Every work of art which really moves us is in some degree a revelation: it changes us.
Art must take to the road and risk all for the glory of adventure.
We were told, quite seriously, that there never would be a Canadian art because we had no art tradition.
Through our own creative experience we came to know that the real tradition in art is not housed only in museums and art galleries and in great works of art; it is innate in us and can be galvanized into activity by the power of creative endeavor in our own day, and in our own country, by our own creative individuals in the arts. We also came to realize that we in Canada cannot truly understand the great cultures of the past and of other peoples, until we ourselves commence our own creative life in the arts. Until we do so, we are looking at these from the outside.
Sleep just a while longer, that's it, where else can you go where you neither suffer nor cause suffering.
Obsessions turn people off.
We lived in the provincial town of Ramat Gan where I spent most of my youth adjacent to the chess board.
Try to understand what I am saying: everything is dependent on everything else, everything is connected, nothing is separate. Therefore everything is going in the only way it can go. If people were different everything would be different. They are what they are, so everything is as it is.