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. Marc Chagall More Quotes by Marc Chagall More Quotes From Marc Chagall My works are dear to me, each in its own way, I shall have to answer for them on the Day off Judgement. God alone knows whether I shall ever see them again. Quite apart from the money which I was going to receive for their sale there (exhibition in Gallery Der Sturm, Berlin June-July, 1914) and it is no small sum. Marc Chagall july judgement june In spite of everything, there is still no more wonderful vocation than to continue to tolerate events and to work on in the name of our mission, in the name of that spirit which lives on in our teaching and in our vision of humanity and art, the spirit which can lead us Jews down the true and just path. But along the way, peoples will spill our blood, and that of others. Marc Chagall teaching blood art When I am finishing a picture, I hold some God-made object up to it Marc Chagall finishing-up finishing-it art For me, Christ has always symbolized the true type of the Jewish martyr. Marc Chagall martyr type christ