It’s a small world, but I wouldn’t want to have to paint it.

I’ll paint you moments of gold, I’ll spin you Valentine evenings…

You have to know how to be vulgar. Paint with four-letter words.

I paint objects as I think them, not as I see them.

It took me four years to paint like Raphael, but a lifetime to paint like a child.

When Philosophy with its abstractions paints grey in grey, the freshness and life of youth has gone, the reconciliation is not a reconciliation in the actual, but in the ideal world.

What a genius, that Picasso. It is a pity he doesn’t paint.

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.