If I weren't a Jew then I wouldn't be an artist, or at least not the one I am now. Marc Chagall More Quotes by Marc Chagall More Quotes From Marc Chagall 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. Marc Chagall starsskyhands 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. Marc Chagall flowermenart I've always painted pictures in which human love floods my colors. Marc Chagall colorhumansflood Color is vibration like music; everything is vibration. Marc Chagall colorvibrations Can my words distill for you a little sweetness, tender and caressing? Marc Chagall sweetnesslittles Love and fantasy, go hand in hand. Marc Chagall hand-in-handfantasyhands 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. Marc Chagall psychicseyemean The fingers must be educated, the thumb is born knowing. Marc Chagall thumbsbornknowing 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 sacredsoulart Time is a river without banks. Marc Chagall timerivers 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. Marc Chagall paintingtastemay Work isn't to make money; you work to justify life. Marc Chagall labor-dayworklife 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. Marc Chagall genuinegood-personartist To call everything that appears illogical, fantasy, fairy tale, or chimera would be practically to admit not understanding nature. Marc Chagall understanding-naturefairy-talewould-be Changes in societal structure and in art would possess more credibility if they had their origins in the soul and spirit. If people read the words of the prophets with closer attention, they would find the keys to life. Marc Chagall keyspeopleart 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 Chagall twoartthinking Mozart never composed anything, ever! He copied what was written on his soul. Marc Chagall writtensoul I am working in Paris . I cannot for a single day get the thought out of my head that there probably exists something essential, some immutable reality, and now that I have lost everything else (thank God, it gets lost all on its own) I am trying to preserve this and, what is more, not to be content. In a word: I am working. Marc Chagall paristhank-godreality What a genius, that Picasso. It is a pity he doesn't paint. Marc Chagall pitypaintgenius Mine alone is the country of my soul. Marc Chagall minessoulcountry
