Chagall Art Quotes & Sayings

Art must be an expression of love or it is nothing. — Marc Chagall

Unfortunately, too many of our schools depend on inexperienced teachers with little training in the subjects they're teaching, and too often those teachers are concentrated in already struggling schools. — Barack Obama

You cannot explain me with "isms." They are very bad for an artist. What one must believe in is color. — Marc Chagall

He said, 'Hi, gorgeous,' which I think is nice. I admire honesty. — Louise Rennison

Art seems to me to be above all a state of soul. — Marc Chagall

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

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

Art seems to me to be a state of soul more than anything else. — Marc Chagall

What counts is art. painting, a kind of painting that is quite different from what everyone makes it out to be. But what kind? Will God or someone else give me the strength to breathe the breath of prayer and mourning into my paintings, the breath of prayer for redemption and resurrection? — Marc Chagall

In our life there is a single color, as on an artist palette which provides the meaning of life and art. It is the color of love. — Marc Chagall

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

Art is foremost a state of mind, and only secondarily a problem of form. — Marc Chagall

Only love interests me, and I am only in contact with things I love. — Marc Chagall

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

I might even end up a rock and roll god, it might turn into a steady job. — Ray Davies

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

NONE OF THIS NONSENSE, PLEASE — Patricia C. Wrede

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

Charity is appeased when some rich person gives money to the poor while justice asks why one person can be that rich when so many are poor. — Ronald Rolheiser

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

Great art picks up where nature ends. — Marc Chagall

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

The most authentic Russian Impressionism leaves one perplexed if one compares it with Monet and Pissarro. Here, in the Louvre, before the canvases of Manet, Millet and others, I understood why my alliance with Russia and Russian art did not take root. — Marc Chagall

When I was young, I wrote everything, and I thought I would be an all around writer, that I would write everything. — Edward Hirsch