Art Is A Person's Private Vision Expressed

My Name Is Asher Lev... I Am A Traitor, An Apostate, A Self-hater, An Inflicter Of Shame Upon My Family, My Friends, My People; Also, I Am A Mocker Of Ideas Sacred To Christians, A Blasphemous Manipulator Of Modes And Forms Revered By Gentiles For Two Thousand Years.

I Do Not Have Many Things That Are Meaningful To Me. Except My Doubts And My Fears. And My Art.

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.

But Today We Become Aware Of Other Readings Of The Human Experience Very Quickly Because Of The Media And The Speed With Which People Travel The Planet.

I'm Constantly Revising. Once The Book Is Written And Typed, I Go Through The Entire Draft Again.