Chagall continued using these themes as he developed his independent
artistic style. He learned about cubism while living in Paris, where many famous
modernist artists of the time lived. Chagall said, "I owe all I have done to Paris
i yet he never was part of any art movement. 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 subjects he loved