Only love interests me, and I am only in contact with things that revolve around love. Marc Chagall More Quotes by Marc Chagall More Quotes From Marc Chagall 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 flower men art I've always painted pictures in which human love floods my colors. Marc Chagall color humans flood Color is vibration like music; everything is vibration. Marc Chagall color vibrations Can my words distill for you a little sweetness, tender and caressing? Marc Chagall sweetness littles Love and fantasy, go hand in hand. Marc Chagall hand-in-hand fantasy hands 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 psychics eye mean The fingers must be educated, the thumb is born knowing. Marc Chagall thumbs born knowing 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 sacred soul art Time is a river without banks. Marc Chagall time rivers 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 painting taste may Work isn't to make money; you work to justify life. Marc Chagall labor-day work life 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 genuine good-person artist To call everything that appears illogical, fantasy, fairy tale, or chimera would be practically to admit not understanding nature. Marc Chagall understanding-nature fairy-tale would-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 keys people art 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 two art thinking If I weren't a Jew then I wouldn't be an artist, or at least not the one I am now. Marc Chagall jew artist ifs Mozart never composed anything, ever! He copied what was written on his soul. Marc Chagall written soul 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 paris thank-god reality What a genius, that Picasso. It is a pity he doesn't paint. Marc Chagall pity paint genius Mine alone is the country of my soul. Marc Chagall mines soul country
