Marc Chagall

The world is a wedding.

One must believe in it as in a religion to be able to paint.

All our interior world is burnt out by the fire of joy. And we must not be afraid.

You have to know how to be alone in order to create.

The sun is so brilliant that it burns my eyes.

I work only out of love for the subject.

My dream is to save women and children, not to kill people.

The artist must call everyone to his aid; the farmer, the waiter, the maid.

In the days of my youth I was a dreamer.

I see the tears of the Madonna.

Painting is the art of hollowing a surface.

I don't want to imitate life, I want to create it.

The happiest hours of my life have been spent in the studio.

Every artist wants to be universal.

My eyes see everything; my heart translates.

War is the greatest enemy of art.

I paint dreams, not reality.

Love is the only reality, and it is expressed in art.

The violin is my soul.

I am always between two worlds.