"It was then that it came, though I think it had been coming for a long time and I had been choking it and hoping it would die. But it does not die. It kills you first. I knew there would be not other way to do it. No one says you have to paint ultimate anguish and torment. But if you are driven to paint it, you have no other way."

-Chaim Potok, My Name is Asher Lev (pg. 326)