5 Isaac Bashevis Singer Quotes on Art

Isaac Bashevis Singer quotes on art

5. I don't invent characters because the Almightly has already invented millions: Just like experts at fingerprints do not create fingerprints but learn how to read them.

22. Strange as these words may sound I often play with the idea that when all the social theories collapse and wars and revolutions leave humanity in utter gloom, the poet - whom Plato banned from his Republic - may rise up to save us all.

28. Every creator painfully experiences the chasm between his inner vision and its ultimate expression.

40. The greatness of art is not to find what is common but what is unique.

43. The very essence of literature is the war between emotion and intellect, between life and death. When literature becomes too intellectual - when it begins to ignore the passions, the emotions - it becomes sterile, silly, and actually without substance.