Art is foremost a state of mind, and only secondarily a problem of form. — Marc Chagall Copy Share Image
Everything in art must spring from the movement of our whole life-stream, of our whole being - including the unconscious. — Marc Chagall Copy Share Image
In our life there is a single color, as on an artist's palette, which provides the meaning of life and art. It… — Marc Chagall Copy Share Image
Art seems to me to be above all a state of soul. All souls are sacred, the soul of all the bipeds… — Marc Chagall Copy Share Image
I am out to introduce a psychic shock into my painting, one that is always motivated by pictorial reasoning: that is to… — Marc Chagall Copy Share Image
You cannot explain me with "isms." They are very bad for an artist. What one must believe in is color. — Marc Chagall Copy Share Image
If I weren't a Jew then I wouldn't be an artist, or at least not the one I am now. — Marc Chagall Copy Share Image
But perhaps my art is the art of a lunatic, I thought, mere glittering quicksilver, a blue soul breaking in upon my… — Marc Chagall Copy Share Image
What counts is art. painting, a kind of painting that is quite different from what everyone makes it out to be. But… — Marc Chagall Copy Share Image
If a symbol should be discovered in a painting of mine, it was not my intention. It is a result I did… — Marc Chagall Copy Share Image
The dignity of the artist lies in his duty of keeping awake the sense of wonder in the world. In this long… — Marc Chagall Copy Share Image
The most authentic Russian Impressionism leaves one perplexed if one compares it with Monet and Pissarro. Here, in the Louvre, before the… — Marc Chagall Copy Share Image
One day a student asked Taiga, What is the most difficult part of painting? Taiga answered, The part of the paper where… — Marc Chagall Copy Share Image
Despite all the troubles of our world, in my heart I have never given up on the love in which I was… — Marc Chagall Copy Share Image
What I mean by 'abstract' is something which comes to life spontaneously through a gamut of contrasts, plastic at the same time… — Marc Chagall Copy Share Image
When I am finishing a picture, I hold some God-made object up to it - a rock, a flower, the branch of… — Marc Chagall Copy Share Image
My works are dear to me, each in its own way, I shall have to answer for them on the Day off… — Marc Chagall Copy Share Image
No academy could have given me all I discovered by getting my teeth into the exhibitions, the shop windows, and the museums… — Marc Chagall Copy Share Image
If I create with my heart almost all my intentions remain. If it is with the head - almost nothing. An artist… — Marc Chagall Copy Share Image
We all know that a good person can be a bad artist.But no one will ever be a genuine artist unless he… — Marc Chagall Copy Share Image
My works are dear to me, each in its own way, I shall have to answer for them on the Day off Judgement. God… — Marc Chagall Copy Share
My hands were too soft.. I had to find some special occupation, some kind of work that would not force me to turn away… — Marc Chagall Copy Share
What counts is art. painting, a kind of painting that is quite different from what everyone makes it out to be. But what kind?… — Marc Chagall Copy Share
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… — Marc Chagall Copy Share
Only love interests me, and I am only in contact with things that revolve around love. — Marc Chagall Copy Share
In spite of everything, there is still no more wonderful vocation than to continue to tolerate events and to work on in the name… — Marc Chagall Copy Share
“I had only to open my bedroom window, and blue air, love, and flowers entered with her”.” — Marc Chagall Copy Share
My name is Marc, my emotional life is sensitive and my purse is empty, but they say I have talent. — Marc Chagall Copy Share
Changes in societal structure and in art would possess more credibility if they had their origins in the soul and spirit. If people read… — Marc Chagall Copy Share
