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 ChagallIn 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.
Marc ChagallColor is all. When color is right, form is right. Color is everything, color is vibration like music; everything is vibration.
Marc ChagallWhat 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