Marc Chagall: the most beautiful quotes

There are artists who do not need frames: their words are already paintings, and Marc Chagall is one of them.

A painter of suspended dreams and flying colors, Chagall left behind not only unforgettable canvases, but also phrases that convey his poetic vision of life and art.

His quotes are small windows into his inner world, made up of love, roots, memory, and imagination. Reading them means getting closer to the beating heart of his poetics, discovering how much his words can still speak today to those who seek beauty and truth.

In this post, I have collected some famous quotes by Marc Chagall: aphorisms that make you smile, reflect, and, sometimes, dream.

Chagall’s most beautiful quotes

“In our lives, there is only one color that gives meaning to art and life itself. The color of love.”

“Art is the relentless effort to compete with the beauty of flowers and never succeed.”

“I am a painter: I want to paint a world of love, of men and women who love each other.”

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

“For me, a painting is a surface on which a soul has hovered.”

“Art seems to be above all a state of mind.”

“Color is everything. When the color is right, the form is right. Color is everything… it is the secret of life.”

“Painting is another way of keeping a diary.”

“My art is above all an art of love. Love is the key to my creation.”

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

“If life has passed without meaning, art helps us find one.”

“My paintings and I are one: no one can separate me from them.”

“Art is a necessity: you have to do it even if no one looks at it.”

“The artist is like a poet: he must paint dreams, not just reality.”