Explore Quotes by Marc Chagall

I've always painted pictures in which human love floods my colors.

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

Color is vibration like music; everything is vibration.

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.

All our interior world is reality, and that, perhaps, more so than our apparent world.

The freer the soul, the more abstract painting becomes.

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

The fingers must be educated, the thumb is born knowing.

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.

I work in whatever medium likes me at the moment.

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

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.

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.

Work isn't to make money; you work to justify life.

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

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.

Love and fantasy, go hand in hand.

Mine alone is the country of my soul.