"Or is all this fuss actually important for << art history >>? Oh, no, never. If things only ever originated as a resu…"

"Now at least 'artists have the upper hand' in the town (Vitebsk). They get totally engrossed in their disputes about …"

"My works are dear to me, each in its own way, I shall have to answer for them on the Day of Judgement. God alone know…"

"..But it doesn't frighten me, because I studied in France, thank God, and I know of no artist in history who was not …"

"The sun has only ever shone for me in France (it certainly did that!). I have got used to beating the streets of Pari…"

"At present there is an extremely exaggerated formation of groups (students on the School of Art in Vitebsk) around 't…"

"For me, Christ has always symbolized the true type of the Jewish martyr. That is how I understood him in 1908 when I …"

"If Russian painters were condemned to become the pupils of the West they were, I think, rather unfaithful ones by the…"

"In response I am sending you some pictures which I painted in Paris out of homesickness for Russia. They are not very…"

"After completing my work [his murals for the Jewish Theater in Moscow) I thought, as has been agreed, that it would b…"