Color is vibration like music; everything is vibration..

My hands were too soft.. I had to find some special occupation, some kind of work that would not force me to turn away from the sky and the stars, th….

In spite of everything, there is still no more wonderful vocation than to continue to tolerate events and to work on in the name of our mission, in t….

The fingers must be educated, the thumb is born knowing..

One must always be careful not to let one's work be covered with moss..

Everything in art must spring from the movement of our whole life-stream, of our whole being - including the unconscious..

I've always painted pictures in which human love floods my colors..

If I create with my heart almost all my intentions remain. If it is with the head - almost nothing. An artist must not fear to be himself, to express….

Great art picks up where nature ends..

I am a little Jew of Vitebsk. All that I paint, all that I do, all that I am, is just the little Jew of Vitebsk..

I adore the theater and I am a painter. I think the two are made for a marriage of love. I will give all my soul to prove this once more..

If all life moves inevitably towards its end, then we must, during our own, colour it with our colours of love and hope..

No academy could have given me all I discovered by getting my teeth into the exhibitions, the shop windows, and the museums of Paris . Beginning with….

In my youth, poverty enriched me, but now I can afford wealth..

One fine day as my mother was putting the bread in the oven, I went up to her and taking her by her flour-smeared elbow I said to her, Mama I want to….

If I create from the heart, nearly everything works; if from the head, almost nothing..

All colors are the friends of their neighbors and the lovers of their opposites..

The habit of ignoring Nature is deeply implanted in our times. This attitude reminds me of people who never look you in the eye; I find them disturbi….

I am out to introduce a psychic shock into my painting, one that is always motivated by pictorial reasoning: that is to say, a fourth dimension..

Time is a river without banks..

Art is foremost a state of mind, and only secondarily a problem of form..