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

If a symbol should be discovered in a painting of mine, it was not my intention. It is a result I did not seek. It is something that may be found afterwards, and which can be interpreted according to taste.

In the arts, as in life, everything is possible provided it is based on love.

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

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

Will God or someone give me the power to breathe my sigh into my canvases, the sigh of prayer and sadness, the prayer of salvation, of rebirth?

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.