We all know that a good person can be a bad artist.But no one will ever be a genuine artist unless he is a great human being and thus also a good one.

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.

If I create from the heart, nearly everything works; if from the head, almost nothing.

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

Color is everything. When color is right, form is right.

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