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

Mine alone is the country of my soul.

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

To call everything that appears illogical, fantasy, fairy tale, or chimera would be practically to admit not understanding nature.

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.

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

The freer the soul, the more abstract painting becomes.