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Marc Chagall - From the Abstraction category:
What I mean by 'abstract' is something which comes to life spontaneously through a gamut of contrasts, plastic at the same time as psychic, and pervades both the picture and the eye of the spectator with conceptions of new and unfamiliar elements... (Marc Chagall)
Marc Chagall - From the Activity category:
One must always be careful not to let one's work be covered with moss. (Marc Chagall)
Marc Chagall - From the Aging category:
I am a child who is getting on. (Marc Chagall)
Marc Chagall - From the Art category:
Art seems to me to be a state of soul more than anything else. (Marc Chagall)
Marc Chagall - From the Brother/Sisterhood category:
Neither Imperial Russia, nor the Russia of the Soviets needs me. They don't understand me. I am a stranger to them. I'm certain Rembrandt loves me. (Marc Chagall)
Marc Chagall - From the Colour category:
Color is all. When color is right, form is right. Color is everything, color is vibration like music; everything is vibration. (Marc Chagall)
Marc Chagall - From the Colour category:
I have always painted pictures where human love floods my colors. (Marc Chagall)
Marc Chagall - From the Competition category:
Art is the increasing effort to compete with the beauty of flowers – and never succeeding. (Marc Chagall)
Marc Chagall - From the Complementaries category:
All colors are the friends of their neighbors and the lovers of their opposites. (Marc Chagall)
Marc Chagall - From the Criticism category:
What a genius, that Picasso. It is a pity he doesn't paint. (Marc Chagall)
Marc Chagall - From the Cubism category:
-on Cubism...
Let them eat their fill of their square pears on their triangular tables! (Marc Chagall)
Marc Chagall - From the Destiny category:
One fine day (but all days are fine) as my mother was putting the bread in the oven, I went up to her, and taking her by her flour-smeared elbow I said to her, 'Mama... I want to be a painter.' (Marc Chagall)
Marc Chagall - From the Difficulty category:
One day a student asked Taiga, 'What is the most difficult part of painting?' Taiga answered, 'The part of the paper where nothing is painted is the most difficult.' (Marc Chagall)
Marc Chagall - From the Doubt category:
But perhaps my art is the art of a lunatic, I thought, mere glittering quicksilver, a blue soul breaking in upon my pictures. (Marc Chagall)
Marc Chagall - From the Education category:
The fingers must be educated, the thumb is born knowing. (Marc Chagall)
Marc Chagall - From the Fantasy category:
Love and fantasy go hand in hand. (Marc Chagall)
Marc Chagall - From the Goodness category:
We all know that a good person can be a bad artist. But no one will ever be a genuine artist unless he is a great human being and thus also a good one. (Marc Chagall)
Marc Chagall - From the Greatness category:
Great art picks up where nature ends. (Marc Chagall)
Marc Chagall - From the Impressionism category:
-Letters of the great artists - from Blake to Pollock by Richard Friedenthal...
The most authentic Russian Impressionism leaves one perplexed if one compares it with Monet and Pissarro. Here, in the Louvre, before the canvases of Manet, Millet and others, I understood why my alliance with Russia and Russian art did not take root. (Marc Chagall)
Marc Chagall - From the Interest category:
Only love interests me, and I am only in contact with things that revolve around love. (Marc Chagall)
Marc Chagall - From the Love category:
In the arts, as in life, everything is possible provided it is based on love. (Marc Chagall)
Marc Chagall - From the Love category:
In our life there is a single color, as on an artist's palette, which provides the meaning of life and art. It is the color of love. (Marc Chagall)
Marc Chagall - From the Magic category:
-Chagall's early work in the Soviet Union by Alexander Kamensky...
The stars were my best friends. The air was full of legends and phantoms, full of mythical and fairy tale creatures, which suddenly flew away over the roof, so that one was at one with the firmament. (Marc Chagall)
Marc Chagall - From the Music category:
Mozart never composed anything, ever! He copied what was written on his soul. (Marc Chagall)
Marc Chagall - From the Nature category:
The habit of ignoring Nature is deeply implanted in our times. This attitude reminds me of people who never look you in the eye; I find them disturbing and always have to look away. (Marc Chagall)
Marc Chagall - From the Patriotism category:
Mine alone is the country of my soul. (Marc Chagall)
Marc Chagall - From the Performance category:
I adore the theater and I am a painter. I think the two are made for a marriage of love. I will give all my soul to prove this once more. (Marc Chagall)
Marc Chagall - From the Portraiture category:
When I painted his portrait and offered it to him, he glanced at the canvas, then, looking at himself in the mirror, thought a moment and said: Well, no! Keep it! (Marc Chagall)
Marc Chagall - From the Prayer category:
Will God or someone else give me the strength to breathe the breath of prayer and mourning into my paintings, the breath of prayer for redemption and resurrection? (Marc Chagall)
Marc Chagall - From the Profession category:
My hands were too soft... I had to find some special occupation, some kind of work that would not force me to turn away from the sky and the stars, that would allow me to discover the meaning of life. (Marc Chagall)
Marc Chagall - From the Prosperity category:
In my youth, poverty enriched me, but now I can afford wealth. (Marc Chagall)
Marc Chagall - From the Questions category:
Will there be anymore? (Marc Chagall)
Marc Chagall - From the Reality category:
All our interior world is reality, and that, perhaps, more so than our apparent world. (Marc Chagall)
Marc Chagall - From the Religion category:
Changes in societal structure and in art would possess more credibility if they had their origins in the soul and spirit. If people read the words of the prophets with closer attention, they would find the keys to life. (Marc Chagall)
Marc Chagall - From the Shock category:
I am out to introduce a psychic shock into my painting, one that is always motivated by pictorial reasoning: that is to say, a fourth dimension. (Marc Chagall)
Marc Chagall - From the Spirituality category:
Art seems to me to be above all a state of soul. All souls are sacred, the soul of all the bipeds in every quarter of the globe. (Marc Chagall)
Marc Chagall - From the Spontaneity category:
I work in whatever medium likes me at the moment. (Marc Chagall)
Marc Chagall - From the Standards category:
When I am finishing a picture, I hold some God-made object up to it - a rock, a flower, the branch of a tree or my hand - as a final test. If the painting stands up beside a thing man cannot make, the painting is authentic. If there's a clash between the two, it's bad art. (Marc Chagall)
Marc Chagall - From the Symbols category:
If a symbol should be discovered in a painting of mine, it was not my intention. It is a result I did not seek. It is something that may be found afterwards, and which can be interpreted according to taste. (Marc Chagall)
Marc Chagall - From the Talent category:
My name is Marc, my emotional life is sensitive and my purse is empty, but they say I have talent. (Marc Chagall)
Marc Chagall - From the Thinking category:
If I create from the heart, nearly everything works; if from the head, almost nothing. (Marc Chagall)
Marc Chagall - From the Time category:
Time is a river without banks. (Marc Chagall)
Marc Chagall - From the Truth category:
One cannot be precise, and still be true. (Marc Chagall)
Marc Chagall - From the Wonder category:
The dignity of the artist lies in his duty of keeping awake the sense of wonder in the world. In this long vigil he often has to vary his methods of stimulation; but in this long vigil he is also himself striving against a continual tendency to sleep. (Marc Chagall)
Marc Chagall - From the Work category:
Work isn't to make money; you work to justify life. (Marc Chagall)
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