The fingers must be educated, the thumb is born knowing.
Art is foremost a state of mind, and only secondarily a problem of form.
All colors are the friends of their neighbors and the lovers of their opposites.
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.
If I weren't a Jew then I wouldn't be an artist, or at least not the one I am now.
For me, Christ has always symbolized the true type of the Jewish martyr.