Status Updates From Je m'appelle Asher Lev

“Paint the anguish of all the world. Let people see the pain. But create your own molds and your own forms of play for the pain. We must give a balance to the universe.”

“Asher Lev, you took from your yeshiva only the things that didn’t interfere with your art. You are a freak. They could not give you a case of aesthetic blindness. They would have had to kill you to do that.”

“Art is whether or not there is a scream in him wanting to get out in a special way . . . Or a laugh.”