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

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

Isaac Bashevis Singer
Art, Unique, Greatness
"Isaac Bashevis Singer Talks …About Everything". Interview with Richard Burgin, www.nytimes.com. November 26, 1978.

The storyteller and poet of our time, as in any other time, must be an entertainer of the spirit in the full sense of the word, not just a preacher of social or political ideals. There is no paradise for bored readers and no excuse for tedious literature that does not intrigue the reader, uplift him, give him the joy and the escape that true art always grants.

Isaac Bashevis Singer
Uplifting, Art, Bored
Isaac Bashevis Singer (1982). “The collected stories of Isaac Bashevis Singer”, Vintage

Literature has neglected the old and their emotions. The novelists never told us that in love, as in other matters, the young are just beginners and that the art of loving matures with age and experience.

Isaac Bashevis Singer
Art, Age, Novelists
Isaac Bashevis Singer (2004). “Collected Stories: One Night in Brazil to The Death of Methuselah”

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

Isaac Bashevis Singer
Art, Creativity, Expression
Isaac Bashevis Singer, Joseph C. Landis (1986). “Aspects of I.B. Singer”

When literature becomes overly erudite, it means that interest in the art has gone and curiosity about the artist is what's important. It becomes a kind of idolatry.

Isaac Bashevis Singer
Art, Mean, Curiosity
Isaac Bashevis Singer, Grace Farrell (1992). “Isaac Bashevis Singer: conversations”, Univ Pr of Mississippi

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.

Isaac Bashevis Singer
Art, Character, Experts
The New York Times, November 26, 1978.

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