Explore Quotes by Marc Chagall

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.

Art seems to me to be above all a state of soul. All souls are sacred, the soul of all the bipeds in every quarter of the globe.

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.

Can my words distill for you a little sweetness, tender and caressing?

You cannot explain me with "isms." They are very bad for an artist. What one must believe in is color.

Mozart never composed anything, ever! He copied what was written on his soul.

I am a little Jew of Vitebsk. All that I paint, all that I do, all that I am, is just the little Jew of Vitebsk.

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 mourning into my paintings, the breath of prayer for redemption and resurrection?

For me, Christ has always symbolized the true type of the Jewish martyr.

If a symbol should be discovered in a painting of mine, it was not my intention. It is a result I did not seek. It is something that may be found afterwards, and which can be interpreted according to taste.

One fine day as my mother was putting the bread in the oven, I went up to her and taking her by her flour-smeared elbow I said to her, Mama I want to be a painter.

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?

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

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

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.

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.

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.

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.

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