It took me a long time to stop thinking that someone else knew what a great painting was. I was never sure.

- Mordicai Gerstein

We are creatures like everything else in our world.

- Mordicai Gerstein

Every book is a unique experience.

- Mordicai Gerstein

You have to learn how to do each book. It's a different world, a different show.

- Mordicai Gerstein

I've always loved Mary Shelley's Frankenstein. There's this wonderful chapter in which we get a first-person account of the monster's first impressio…

- Mordicai Gerstein

I wanted everybody to see a sunrise and be knocked out by the miracle of it, the world being created every morning.

- Mordicai Gerstein

I'm the expert when it comes to my paintings. I think all great painters have to have that confidence in what they are seeking and when they're getti…

- Mordicai Gerstein

If I keep coming back to a painting and there's a little something that bothers me, I know I'm not going to get away with it. I'm going to have to fi…

- Mordicai Gerstein

People have their own ideas how about they should appear.

- Mordicai Gerstein