Mozart never composed anything, ever! He copied what was written on his soul.

I am out to introduce a psychic shock into my painting, one that is always motivated by pictorial reasoning: that is to say, a fourth dimension.

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

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

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.

When I am finishing a picture, I hold some God-made object up to it - a rock, a flower, the branch of a tree or my hand - as a final test. If the painting stands up beside a thing man cannot make, the painting is authentic. If there's a clash between the two, it's bad art.

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