On cannot be precise, and still be true..

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

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….

You could wonder for hours what flowers mean, but for me, they're life itself, in all its happy brilliance. We couldn't do with out flowers. Flowers ….

If I weren't a Jew then I wouldn't be an artist, or at least not the one I am now..

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..

I work in whatever medium likes me at the moment..

All our interior world is reality, and that, perhaps, more so than our apparent world..

Work isn't to make money; you work to justify life..

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

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

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..

If a symbol should be discovered in a painting of mine, it was not my intention. It is a result I did not seek. It is something that may be found aft….

The stars were my best friends. The air was full of legends and phantoms, full of mythical and fair-tale creatures, which suddenly flew away over the….

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

Can my words distill for you a little sweetness, tender and caressing?.

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

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….

I am a child who is getting on..

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..

You cannot explain me with "isms." They are very bad for an artist. What one must believe in is color..