From "The Rabbi's Cat" by Joann Sfar

"You know what?  We should live like hermits in a cave...

"No, Allah wouldn't be pleased.  We'd be like Jonah, preferring things to people"

"So?  Can't we say we've served others, they wear us out, we're old and want peace?"

"No."

"When you see new things, look and don't speak right away.

....you could look in silence"

"neither speak nor express an opinion?  I've never done that."

The painter is happy...he paints countless landscapes.  

"This is the desert.  What can you paint here?"

"The colour."

"Blue for the sky, blue for the dunes, that's dull."

"I can use other colors too.  And I can swap the dunes' calm lines for something else."

"Why come here to reinvent everything? You could have done exactly the same in Russia."

"No. Not exactly."

"I prefer looking at nature than your daubs."

"Me too.  That's why I observe closely before I begin."