I have never looked for dream in reality or reality in dream. I have allowed my imagination free play, and I have not been led astray by it.

I am dominated by one thing, an irresistible, burning attraction towards the abstract.

Nature is simply the opportunity for the artist to express himself.

Color must be thought, imagined, dreamed.

I believe only in what I do not see.

I believe neither in what I touch nor what I see. I only believe in what I do not see, and solely in what I feel.

No one could have less faith in the absolute and definitive importance of the work created by man, because I believe that this world is nothing but a dream.

Think colour! Know how to imagine it!

to live and leave indelible footprints, think of the rocks

Cowardice... is almost always simply a lack of ability to suspend functioning of the imagination.

Opinions I have about anything are in my personal life.

I've either got an acute case of hypochondria or I'm falling apart at the age of twenty-three.

Our role in Israel is a pioneering one, and we need people with certain strength of fiber.

Even today, if my title hadn't been given back to me and I was in such poverty where I had to go and find a job, I would have done that.

Posterity will talk of Washington as the founder of a great empire, when my name shall be lost in the vortex of revolution.

No matter how old an individual may be, no matter if he is young or old, if he thinks in accordance with the times he is immortal.

I am long on ideas, but short on time. I expect to live to be only about a hundred.

Moscow has an energy. Which is important. The city and the people all have an energy. It's quite different from what everybody knows in Los Angeles, but it has an energy. People have an energy.