Quotes from Marc Chagall

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

Color is vibration like music; everything is vibration.

To call everything that appears illogical, fantasy, fairy tale, or chimera would be practically to admit not understanding nature.

When I am finishing a picture, I hold some God-made object up to it

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.

Great art picks up where nature ends.

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?

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.

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

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

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

In our life there is a single color, as on an artist palette which provides the meaning of life and art. It is the color of love.

Love and fantasy, go hand in hand.

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

I had only to open my bedroom window, and blue air, love, and flowers entered with her".

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

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

What a genius, that Picasso. It is a pity he doesn't paint.

Art seems to me to be a state of soul more than anything else.

I have always painted pictures where human love floods my colors.

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.

Mine alone is the country of my soul.

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

I am a child who is getting on.