All colors are the friends of their neighbors and the lovers of their opposites. Marc Chagall
All our interior world is reality, and that, perhaps, more so than our apparent world. Marc Chagall
Art is the unceasing effort to compete with the beauty of flowers – and never succeeding. Marc Chagall
But perhaps my art is the art of a lunatic, I thought, mere glittering quicksilver, a blue soul breaking in upon my pictures. Marc Chagall
Changes in societal structure and in art would possess more credibility if they had their origins in the soul and spirit. If people read the words of the prophets with closer attention, they would find the keys to life. Marc Chagall
Color is all. When color is right, form is right. Color is everything, color is vibration like music; everything is vibration. Marc Chagall
Despite all the troubles of the world in my heart I have never given up on the love in which I was brought up or on man’s hope in love. Marc Chagall
Great art picks up where nature ends. Marc Chagall
I am out to introduce a psychic shock into my painting, one that is always motivated by pictorial reasoning: that is to say, a fourth dimension. Marc Chagall
I do not believe that scientific aims serve the cause of art well. Impressionism and Cubism are alien to me. It seem to me that art is first and foremost a condition of the soul. Marc Chagall
I don’t know if color chose me or I chose color, but since childhood I’ve been married to color in its pure state. Marc Chagall
I have always painted pictures where human love floods my colors. Marc Chagall
I work in whatever medium likes me at the moment. Marc Chagall
If a symbol should be discovered in a painting of mine, it was not my intention. It is a result I did not seek. It is something that may be found afterwards, and which can be interpreted according to taste. Marc Chagall
If I create from the heart, nearly everything works; if from the head, almost nothing. Marc Chagall
If I were not a Jew: I wouldn’t have been an artist, or I would be a different artist all together. Marc Chagall
In art, as in life, everything is possible, if it is based on love. Marc Chagall
In my youth, poverty enriched me, but now I can afford wealth. Marc Chagall
In our life there is a single color, as on an artist’s palette, which provides the meaning of life and art. It is the color of love. Marc Chagall
Is not painting merely a reflection of our inner persona and, by this alone, does it not relegate the mastery of the brush into second place? This means little here. Colour and its lines imbibe both your character and your message. Marc Chagall
Marc Chagall Quotes
It is not for me to explain them. Works of art should speak for themselves. Marc Chagall
Love and fantasy go hand in hand. Marc Chagall
Mozart never composed anything, ever! He copied what was written on his soul. Marc Chagall
My name is Marc, my emotional life is sensitive and my purse is empty, but they say I have talent. Marc Chagall
Neither Imperial Russia, nor the Russia of the Soviets needs me. They don’t understand me. I am a stranger to them. I’m certain Rembrandt loves me. Marc Chagall
One cannot be precise, and still be true. Marc Chagall
Only love interests me, and I am only in contact with things that revolve around love. Marc Chagall
Since my early years, I have been captivated by the Bible. It always seemed to me – as it does now – that this book is one of the most powerful sources of poetry of all time. Since then, I began to seek its reflection in life and Art. The Bible is a response to existence; this is the secret that I have tried to convey. Marc Chagall
The dignity of the artist lies in his duty of keeping awake the sense of wonder in the world. In this long vigil he often has to vary his methods of stimulation; but in this long vigil he is also himself striving against a continual tendency to sleep. Marc Chagall
The freer the soul, the more abstract painting becomes. Marc Chagall
The habit of ignoring Nature is deeply implanted in our times. This attitude reminds me of people who never look you in the eye; I find them disturbing and always have to look away. Marc Chagall
Time is a river without banks. Marc Chagall
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. Marc Chagall
What a genius, that Picasso. It is a pity he doesn’t paint. Marc Chagall
What I mean by ‘abstract’ is something which comes to life spontaneously through a gamut of contrasts, plastic at the same time as psychic, and pervades both the picture and the eye of the spectator with conceptions of new and unfamiliar elements. Marc Chagall
When I am finishing a picture, I hold some God-made object up to it — a rock, a flower, the branch of a tree or my hand — as a final test. If the painting stands up beside a thing man cannot make, the painting is authentic. If there’s a clash between the two, it’s bad art. Marc Chagall
Will God or someone else give me the strength to breathe the breath of prayer and mourning into my paintings, the breath of prayer for redemption and resurrection? Marc Chagall
Work isn’t to make money; you work to justify life. Marc Chagall
You cannot explain me with “isms.” They are very bad for an artist. What one must believe in is color. Marc Chagall
You could wonder for hours what flowers mean, but for me, they’re life itself, in all its happy brilliance. We couldn’t do with out flowers. Flowers help you forget life’s tragedies. Marc Chagall