在電影Notthing Hill中有一幕我到現在還好深刻的，就是男女主角在男主角家中觀看他掛在壁上的一幅畫，他們對白如下：
Anna Scott: I can't believe you have that picture on your wall.
William: You like Chagall?
Anna Scott: I do. It feels like how being in love should be. Floating through a dark blue sky.
William: With a goat playing the violin.
Anna Scott: Yes - happiness isn't happiness without a violin-playing goat.
這幅畫作其實是畫家Marc Chagall（夏卡爾）的作品叫作“La Mariée” ，英文即The Bride(新娘）。在戲中，女主角好驚訝男主角的家中有這幅畫作，她表示好喜歡夏卡爾的畫，她覺得戀愛的感覺就如同畫中浮動在深藍的天空一樣，男主角則開玩笑回應說”還要伴隨一隻在拉小提琴的山羊。“，女主角最後就附和回應說，“對，沒有會拉琴的山羊，快樂就不再是快樂了。”
La Mariée by Marc Chagall
他們的對話十分有趣，因為夏卡爾的畫作經常出現許多動物，有些人是認為這是由於夏卡爾受兒時生活環境而影響畫風，更有許多人對這些動物作符號學的詮釋，以下是在網上找到一些資料。
﹣Cow: Substainer of life. Another notion is that Chagall is striving to unite the bestial and the rational, the spontaneous and the studied, man and beast.
﹣Goat: The goat is a Jewish symbol for the day of atonement - a feast when the sins of the people were once symbolically expiated
﹣Tree: another life symbol.
﹣Cock: At times fertility, often painted together with lovers.
﹣Red Rooster: Forgiveness & atonement.
﹣Bosom: eroticism and fertility of life (Chagall loved and respected women).
﹣Fiddler: Celebration and mourning. In Chagall's village the fiddler made music at cross-points of life (birth, wedding, death). Its wider Russian significance is that of the failed revolution of 1905. The leader of this revolution was a Jewish fiddler named Sormus, who led workers through the streets to fight for their rights. Chagall saw himself in the fiddler, a solitary, isolated individual.
﹣Herring (often also painted as a flying fish): commemorates Chagall's father working in a fish factory.
﹣Pendulum Clock: time, and modest life (in the time of prosecution at the Loire River the pendulum seems being driven with force into the wooden box of the pendulum clock).
﹣Candlestick: Some say it's purely a Jewish religious symbol - two candles symbolize the Shabbat or the Menorah, and therefore the life of pious Jews.
I think the candles represent far more that a religious icon; unity, love, warmth, direction, and romance... depending on the painting you must decide.
﹣Windows: Chagall's Love of Freedom, and Paris through the window.
﹣Houses of Vitebsk (often in paintings of his time in Paris): feelings for his homeland.
﹣Scenes of the Circus: Harmony of Man and Animal, which induces Creativity in Man.
﹣Crucifixion of Jesus: an unusual subject for a Jewish painter, and likely a response to the rise of anti-Semitism in Germany in the late 1930s.
﹣Horses: One source said the horse represents freedom, in many Chagall paintings this doesn't seem to fit. I see the horse representing strength, particularly in the marriage union (Kunstler And His Wife), sexuality (Couple In Blue)
﹣The Eiffel Tower: Up in the sky, freedom.
根據資源，山羊在猶太人中有贖罪的意思（夏卡爾本人是猶太人），而這幅畫中也有一隻魚，就是資源中說的herring，這種魚據說是用來紀念夏卡爾的父親，因他父親曾在魚的工場工作。
也因為夏卡爾的作品中有許多游走的動物，內容表現多為超現實的繪畫，他一向被別人稱為是超現實主義畫家。對此，夏卡爾作出一個很棒的回覆﹕
“很多人都說我的畫是詩的、幻想的、錯誤的。其實相反地，我的繪畫是寫實的......我不喜歡‘幻想’和‘象征主義’這類話，在我內心的世界，一切都是現實的、恐怕比我們目睹的世界更加現實。”
內心世界中的感覺是最使人深刻（最真實的）的感覺，例如，當你快樂時，就是無論你在何處，或即使你身在石屎森林中，你也可感覺自己在天空中游走，或許在大海中暢泳。夏卡爾只是把他內心中的美和愉快表達出來，快樂一向不需要合理，正如女主角所說，沒有會拉琴的山羊相伴，快樂就不再是快樂了。
