Marc Chagall Quotes

• Color is all. When color is right, form is right. Color is everything, color is vibration like music; everything is vibration.

  Marc Chagall

  Topics in Art

• When I am finishing a picture I hold some G-d-made object up to it – a rock, a flower, the branch of a tree or my hand – as a kind of 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 is bad art.

  Marc Chagall

  Topics in Art

• Work isn’t to make money; you work to justify life.

  Marc Chagall

  Topics in Life

• 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

  Topics in God

  Tags in Painting

• The fingers must be educated, the thumb is born knowing.

  Marc Chagall

• 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

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in World

• Only love interests me, and I am only in contact with things that revolve around love.

  Marc Chagall

  Topics in Love

• 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

  Topics in Art, Life, Love

• If I create from the heart, nearly everything works; if from the head, almost nothing.

  Marc Chagall

  Topics in Work

  Tags in Heart

• I work in whatever medium likes me at the moment.

  Marc Chagall

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Moment

• 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

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Marriage

• All colors are the friends of their neighbors and the lovers of their opposites.

  Marc Chagall

  Topics in Art

  Tags in Friends

• Great art picks up where nature ends.

  Marc Chagall

  Topics in Art, Nature

  Tags in Up, Where, Ends, Picks, Great

Marc Chagall (13)

Birth:	6th July, 1887
Death:	28th March, 1985
Nationality:	French
Profession:	Artist

About

Marc Zakharovich Chagall was a Belarussian-Russian-French artist. Art critic Robert Hughes referred to Chagall as "the quintessential Jewish artist of the twentieth century". An early modernist, he was associated with several major artistic styles and created works in virtually every artistic medium, including painting, book illustrations, stained glass, stage sets, ceramic, tapestries and fine art prints.

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