I sometimes have the impression that I have been born, between heaven and earth..the more I work the more I tried to align these paintings with a distant dream. [1]
I do not believe that scientific aims serve the cause of art well. Impressionism and Cubism are alien to me. It seem to me that art is first and foremost a condition of the soul.
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.
Art is the unceasing effort to compete with the beauty of flowers and never succeeding.
Note: I have seen this quote attributed, at various less scrupulous sites than Wikiquote, sometimes to Marc Chagall and sometimes to Gian Carlo Menotti. It would be good to locate a proper source for one attribution or the other.