Chagall continued using these themes as he developed his independent artistic style. He learned about cubism whils living in paris, where many famous modernist artists of the time lived. Chagall said, " I owe all I have done to Paris," yet he never was part of any art movemant. Chagall's power is in the way he used the cubist and abstract styles of his time to create his own dreamlike images of the subjiect he loved.