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

Art seems to me to be above all a state of soul. All souls are sacred, the soul of all the bipeds in every quarter of the globe.

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, that would allow me to discover the meaning of life.

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 help you forget life's tragedies.

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

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

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.