Marc Chagall Quotes
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You cannot explain me with "isms." They are very bad for an artist. What one must believe in is color.
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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.
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Art must be an expression of love or it is nothing.
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All colors are the friends of their neighbors and the lovers of their opposites.
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Color is vibration like music; everything is vibration.
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In the arts, as in life, everything is possible provided it is based on love.
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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.
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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
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The freer the soul, the more abstract painting becomes.
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No academy could have given me all I discovered by getting my teeth into the exhibitions, the shop windows, and the museums of Paris . Beginning with the market - where, for lack of money, I bought only a piece of a long cucumber - the workman in his blue overall, the most ardent followers of Cubism , everything showed a definite feeling for proportion, clarity, an accurate sense of form, of a more painterly kind of painting, even in the canvases of second-rate artists.
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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.
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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.
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My hands were too soft.. I had to find some special occupation, some kind of work that would not force me to turn away from the sky and the stars, that would allow me to discover the meaning of life.
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The most authentic Russian Impressionism leaves one perplexed if one compares it with Monet and Pissarro. Here, in the Louvre, before the canvases of Manet, Millet and others, I understood why my alliance with Russia and Russian art did not take root.
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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.
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What a genius, that Picasso. It is a pity he doesn't paint.
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Great art picks up where nature ends.
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My works are dear to me, each in its own way, I shall have to answer for them on the Day off Judgement. God alone knows whether I shall ever see them again. Quite apart from the money which I was going to receive for their sale there (exhibition in Gallery Der Sturm, Berlin June-July, 1914) and it is no small sum.
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Everything in art must spring from the movement of our whole life-stream, of our whole being - including the unconscious.
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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.
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Work isn't to make money; you work to justify life.
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Art is foremost a state of mind, and only secondarily a problem of form.
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The fingers must be educated, the thumb is born knowing.
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Time is a river without banks.
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Only love interests me, and I am only in contact with things that revolve around love.
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All our interior world is reality, and that, perhaps, more so than our apparent world.
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Mozart never composed anything, ever! He copied what was written on his soul.
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When I am finishing a picture, I hold some God-made object up to it
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If I weren't a Jew then I wouldn't be an artist, or at least not the one I am now.
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Love and fantasy, go hand in hand.
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