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

Great art picks up where nature ends.

The dignity of the artist lies in his duty of keeping awake the sense of wonder in the world. In this long vigil he often has to vary his methods of stimulation; but in this long vigil he is also himself striving against a continual tendency to sleep.

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

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

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

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.