Art Is A Person's Private Vision Expressed

Truth Has To Be Given In Riddles. People Can't Take Truth If It Comes Charging At Them Like A Bull. The Bull Is Always Killed. You Have To Give People The Truth In A Riddle, Hide It So They Go Looking For It And Find It Piece By Piece; That Way They Learn To Live With It.

As You Grow Older You Will Discover That The Most Important Things That Will Happen To You Will Often Come As A Result Of Silly Things, As You Call Them --"ordinary Things" Is A Better Expression. That Is The Way The World Is.

No One Knows He Is Fortunate Until He Becomes Unfortunate, That's The Way The World Is.

There Is In My Work A Very Strong Religious Foreground And Background. In The Later Work Some Of That Tends To Diminish, But It's Certainly Present In The Early Work.

In Russia I Went To A Great Yeshiva, And In America I Work In A Carnival.