Marc Chagall

I adore the theater and I am a painter. I think the two are made for a marriage of love. I will give all my soul to prove this once more.

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

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

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.

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

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

If I weren't a Jew then I wouldn't be an artist, or at least not the one I am now.

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.

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.

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

Color is everything. When color is right, form is right.

I am out to introduce a psychic shock into my painting, one that is always motivated by pictorial reasoning: that is to say, a fourth dimension.

What I mean by 'abstract' is something which comes to life spontaneously through a gamut of contrasts, plastic at the same time as psychic, and pervades both the picture and the eye of the spectator with conceptions of new and unfamiliar elements.

The freer the soul, the more abstract painting becomes.

Great art picks up where nature ends.

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.

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

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

Mine alone is the country of my soul.