84 Quotes by Marc Chagall

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

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

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.

The freer the soul, the more abstract painting becomes.

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.

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.

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

But perhaps my art is the art of a lunatic, I thought, mere glittering quicksilver, a blue soul breaking in upon my pictures.

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