Quotes by Marc Chagall

“All colors are the friends of their neighbors and the lovers of their opposites.”

“In our life there is a single color, as on an artists palette, which provides the meaning of life and art. It is the color of love.”

“If I create from the heart, nearly everything works; if from the head, almost nothing.”

“Great art picks up where nature ends.”

“Only love interests me, and I am only in contact with things that revolve around love.”

“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 kind of final test. If the painting stands up beside a thing man cannot make, the painting is authentic. If theres a clash between the two, it is bad 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.”

“I work in whatever medium likes me at the moment.”

“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.”

“Work isnt to make money; you work to justify life.”

Color is all. When color is right, form is right. Color is everything, color is vibration like music; everything is vibration.

In the arts, as in life, everything is possible provided it is based on love.

All colors are the friends of their neighbors and the lovers of their opposites.

Love and fantasy, go hand in hand.

If I create from the heart, nearly everything works; if from the head, almost nothing.

I had only to open my bedroom window, and blue air, love, and flowers entered with her”.

In my youth poverty enriched me but now I can afford wealth.

The fingers must be educated the thumb is born knowing.

In our life there is a single color as on an artists palette which provides the meaning of life and art. It is the color of love.

Time is a river without banks.