Marc Chagall Quotes

Despite all the troubles of our 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. In life, just as on the artist's palette, there is but one single colour that gives meaning to life and art–the colour of love

Color is all. When color is right, form is right. Color is everything, color is vibration like music; everything is vibration.

If I create from the heart, nearly everything works; if from the head, almost nothing.

If all life moves inevitably towards its end, then we must, during our own, colour it with our colours of love and hope.

Art seems to me to be above all a state of soul.

In the arts, as in life, everything is possible provided it is based on love.

Art must be an expression of love or it is nothing.

The freer the soul, the more abstract painting becomes.

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.

All our interior world is reality, and that, perhaps, more so than our apparent world.

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.

For me a stained glass window is a transparent partition between my heart and the heart of the world.

My name is Marc, my emotional life is sensitive and my purse is empty, but they say I have talent.

If I create with my heart almost all my intentions remain. If it is with the head - almost nothing. An artist must not fear to be himself, to express only himself. If he is absolutely and entirely sincere, what he says and does will be acceptable to others.

All colors are the friends of their neighbors and the lovers of their opposites.

Only love interests me, and I am only in contact with things that revolve around love.

Great art picks up where nature ends.

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.

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.

Color is vibration like music; everything is vibration.

Everything in art must spring from the movement of our whole life-stream, of our whole being - including the unconscious.

The stars were my best friends. The air was full of legends and phantoms, full of mythical and fair-tale creatures, which suddenly flew away over the roof, so that one was at one with the firmament.

Time is a river without banks.

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.

Will God or someone give me the power to breathe my sigh into my canvases, the sigh of prayer and sadness, the prayer of salvation, of rebirth?