Marc Chagall Quotes
Most popular Marc Chagall Quotes
Great art picks up where nature ends.
Art seems to me above all a state of soul.
All I know is that one understands, only what one loves.
If I create from the heart, nearly everything works; if from the head, almost nothing.
You cannot explain me with 'isms.' They are very bad for an artist. What one must believe in is color.
I don't know if color chose me or I chose color, but since childhood I've been married to color in its pure state.
In our life there is a single color, as on an artist's palette, which provides the meaning of life and art. It is the color of love.
![The soil that had nourished the roots of my art was Vitebsk [his home town in Russia]; but my art needed Paris as much as a tree needs water. - Marc Chagall quote.](/img/q/01/26601A-the-soil-that-had-nourished-the-roots-my-art-was-marc-chagall.png)
The soil that had nourished the roots of my art was Vitebsk [his home town in Russia]; but my art needed Paris as much as a tree needs water.
Everything may change in our demoralized world except the heart, mankind's love, and our striving to know the divine. Painting, like all poetry, has its part in the divine; people feel this today just as much as they used to.
In our life there is a single color, as on an artist's palette, which provides the meaning of life and art. It is the color of love.
