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> [What counts is art. painting, a kind of painting that is quite different from what everyone makes it out to be. But what kind? Will God or someone else give me the strength to breathe the breath of prayer and…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/marc-chagall/what-counts-is-art-painting-a-kind-of-painting-that-is-quite/)

[Marc Chagall](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/marc-chagall/)

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## More by Marc Chagall

> [My works are dear to me, each in its own way, I shall have to answer for them on the Day off Judgement. God…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/marc-chagall/my-works-are-dear-to-me-each-in-its-own-way-i-shall-have-to-answer/)

[Marc Chagall](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/marc-chagall/)

> [My hands were too soft.. I had to find some special occupation, some kind of work that would not force me to turn away…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/marc-chagall/my-hands-were-too-soft-i-had-to-find-some-special-occupation-some/)

[Marc Chagall](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/marc-chagall/)

> [What counts is art. painting, a kind of painting that is quite different from what everyone makes it out to be. But what kind?…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/marc-chagall/what-counts-is-art-painting-a-kind-of-painting-that-is-quite/)

[Marc Chagall](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/marc-chagall/)

> [Color is everything. When color is right, form is right.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/marc-chagall/color-is-everything-when-color-is-right-form-is-right/)

[Marc Chagall](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/marc-chagall/)

> [For me Christ has always symbolized the true type of the Jewish martyr.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/marc-chagall/for-me-christ-has-always-symbolized-the-true-type-of-the-jewish-martyr/)

[Marc Chagall](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/marc-chagall/)

> [The freer the soul, the more abstract painting becomes.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/marc-chagall/the-freer-the-soul-the-more-abstract-painting-becomes/)

[Marc Chagall](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/marc-chagall/)

> [Art must be an expression of love or it is nothing.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/marc-chagall/art-must-be-an-expression-of-love-or-it-is-nothing/)

[Marc Chagall](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/marc-chagall/)

> [I am a child who is getting on.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/marc-chagall/i-am-a-child-who-is-getting-on/)

[Marc Chagall](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/marc-chagall/)

> [“Art seems to me to be a state of soul more than anything else.”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/marc-chagall/art-seems-to-me-to-be-a-state-of-soul-more-than-anything-else/)

[Marc Chagall](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/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…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/marc-chagall/we-all-know-that-a-good-person-can-be-a-bad-artist-but-no-one-will/)

[Marc Chagall](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/marc-chagall/)

> [Only love interests me, and I am only in contact with things that revolve around love.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/marc-chagall/only-love-interests-me-and-i-am-only-in-contact-with-things-that/)

[Marc Chagall](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/marc-chagall/)

> [In spite of everything, there is still no more wonderful vocation than to continue to tolerate events and to work on in the name…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/marc-chagall/in-spite-of-everything-there-is-still-no-more-wonderful-vocation-than/)

[Marc Chagall](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/marc-chagall/)

> [“I had only to open my bedroom window, and blue air, love, and flowers entered with her”.”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/marc-chagall/i-had-only-to-open-my-bedroom-window-and-blue-air-love-and-flowers/)

[Marc Chagall](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/marc-chagall/)

> [My name is Marc, my emotional life is sensitive and my purse is empty, but they say I have talent.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/marc-chagall/my-name-is-marc-my-emotional-life-is-sensitive-and-my-purse-is-empty/)

[Marc Chagall](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/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…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/marc-chagall/changes-in-societal-structure-and-in-art-would-possess-more/)

[Marc Chagall](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/marc-chagall/)

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