Quotes by Peter Malkin

Even a secret agent can't lie to a Jewish mother.

I found myself having to explain away to prospective employers a twenty-seven year gap in my r'sum'.

I keep painting on newspapers, maps, and books spending days in bookstores to look for old paintings and young painters.

I spent a lot of time in churches. If you go to a synagogue, someone is always asking if you're alone, if you're married. In a church, in a hundred years no one would ask.

Many times I asked myself, 'Who is a painter in your own eyes?'

Particularly, I enjoy strolling in the streets, watching passersby, gazing at the beautiful variety of the dresses and perceiving their joy; their sadness. At home, during the small hours of the night, I'll paint from memory what I have seen in the streets until I am under the impression of being with them again.

The problem here is with a human being, not with a monster, not with an animal. The human being does things that even the monster does not do, because the human is more sophisticated.

Writing and Painting are the same for me.