https://vegasharmon.com/authors/chaim-potok/ Recent content in Chaim Potok on Vegas Harmon Hugo en Sat, 15 Nov 2025 00:00:00 +0000 https://vegasharmon.com/commonplace/a-scream-wanting-to-get-out/ Sat, 15 Nov 2025 00:00:00 +0000 https://vegasharmon.com/commonplace/a-scream-wanting-to-get-out/ “Millions of people can draw. Art is whether or not there is a scream in him [Asher] wanting to get out in a special way.” “Or a laugh,” she said. “Picasso laughs, too.” “Or a laugh,” he said. https://vegasharmon.com/commonplace/a-truth-beyond-words/ Sat, 15 Nov 2025 00:00:00 +0000 https://vegasharmon.com/commonplace/a-truth-beyond-words/ [I painted for] a truth I did not know how to put into words. For a truth I could only bring to life by means of color and line and texture and form. https://vegasharmon.com/commonplace/an-eye-drawing/ Sat, 15 Nov 2025 00:00:00 +0000 https://vegasharmon.com/commonplace/an-eye-drawing/ That is an eye drawing, Anna. Hands alone do not draw this way. https://vegasharmon.com/commonplace/beasts-from-a-private-mythology/ Sat, 15 Nov 2025 00:00:00 +0000 https://vegasharmon.com/commonplace/beasts-from-a-private-mythology/ …beasts from a private mythology. https://vegasharmon.com/commonplace/desire-then-kindred-spirits/ Sat, 15 Nov 2025 00:00:00 +0000 https://vegasharmon.com/commonplace/desire-then-kindred-spirits/ If you want to know how to do a thing you must first have a complete desire to do that thing. Then go to kindred spirits—others who have wanted to do that thing—and study their ways and means, learn from their successes and failures, and add to your quota. https://vegasharmon.com/commonplace/measured-for-the-sake-of-heaven/ Sat, 15 Nov 2025 00:00:00 +0000 https://vegasharmon.com/commonplace/measured-for-the-sake-of-heaven/ A life is measured by how it is lived for the sake of heaven. https://vegasharmon.com/commonplace/not-wise-to-grow-too-old/ Sat, 15 Nov 2025 00:00:00 +0000 https://vegasharmon.com/commonplace/not-wise-to-grow-too-old/ Sometimes I think it is not wise to grow too old,.. […] But I am not aware that we are given a choice in this matter. https://vegasharmon.com/commonplace/painting-is-not-storytelling/ Sat, 15 Nov 2025 00:00:00 +0000 https://vegasharmon.com/commonplace/painting-is-not-storytelling/ I am going to teach you that painting is not storytelling. If you want to tell stories, become either an illustrator or a writer. If you want to be a painter, you will learn to use line and color and shape and texture to create paintings, not stories. https://vegasharmon.com/commonplace/tasting-the-golden-sun/ Sat, 15 Nov 2025 00:00:00 +0000 https://vegasharmon.com/commonplace/tasting-the-golden-sun/ I walked the streets and tasted the golden sun that lay across the city. https://vegasharmon.com/commonplace/the-rarity-of-actual-wanting/ Sat, 15 Nov 2025 00:00:00 +0000 https://vegasharmon.com/commonplace/the-rarity-of-actual-wanting/ You can do anything you want to do. What is rare is this actual wanting to do a specific thing: wanting it so much that you are practically blind to all other things, that nothing else will satisfy you. https://vegasharmon.com/commonplace/the-world-will-indulge-you-just-so-long/ Sat, 15 Nov 2025 00:00:00 +0000 https://vegasharmon.com/commonplace/the-world-will-indulge-you-just-so-long/ You will have to grow accustomed to it. The world will indulge you just so long, Asher Lev. Then it will stop. You will simply have to grow accustomed to that truth.