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.
Marc ChagallRead
If all life moves inevitably towards its end, then we must, during our own, colour it with our colours of love and hope.
Interpretation
What this quote means
Life is temporary, so we should fill our time with love and hope.
Marc Chagall’s quote suggests that life is finite and will eventually come to an end, but it encourages us to make the most of our time by infusing our lives with love and hope. This perspective emphasizes the importance of positivity and meaningful connections as we navigate our existence, prompting us to leave a vibrant legacy through our actions and relationships.
Themes
LifeLoveHopeColorsLegacy
In practice
Example use cases
In a graduation speech to inspire students to pursue their passions.
More from Marc Chagall
All quotes →If I create from the heart, nearly everything works; if from the head, almost nothing.
Marc ChagallRead
Art must be an expression of love or it is nothing.
Marc ChagallRead
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.
Marc ChagallRead
Color is vibration like music; everything is vibration.
Marc ChagallRead
For me a stained glass window is a transparent partition between my heart and the heart of the world.
Marc ChagallRead
Similar quotes
Hip-hop saved my life, man. It's the only thing I've ever been even decent at. I don't know how to do anything else.
EminemRead
She died on a windy gray day in March when the sky was full of darting crows and the world lay prostrate and defeated after winter. Peter Lake was at her side and it ruined him forever. It broke him as he had not ever imagined he could have been broken. He would never again be young, or able to remember what it was like to be young. What he had once taken to be pleasures would appear to him in his defeat as hideous and deserved punishments for reckless vanity.
Mark HelprinRead
It's the most satisfying occupation man has discovered yet, because you never can quite do it as well as you want to, so there's always something to wake up tomorrow morning to do.
William FaulknerRead
Looking at suicide—the sheer numbers, the pain leading up to it, and the suffering left behind—is harrowing. For every moment of exuberance in the science, or in the success of governments, there is a matching and terrible reality of the deaths themselves: the young deaths, the violent deaths, the unnecessary deaths
Kay Redfield JamisonRead
And I rose In rainy autumn And walked abroad in a shower of all my days.
Dylan ThomasRead
She's got the whole dark forest living inside of her.
Tom WaitsRead