I've always painted pictures in which human love floods my colors.

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.

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.

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

For me, Christ has always symbolized the true type of the Jewish martyr.

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

When I am finishing a picture, I hold some God-made object up to it