Marc Chagall
Marc Chagall
Marc Zakharovich Chagallwas a Russian-French artist. 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...
NationalityFrench
ProfessionPainter
Date of Birth7 July 1887
CityLiozna, Belarus
CountryFrance
freedom soul abstract-painting
The freer the soul, the more abstract painting becomes.
children
I am a child who is getting on.
mother elbows want
One fine day 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.
stars hands sky
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.
art finishing-it finishing-up
When I am finishing a picture, I hold some God-made object up to it
art blue soul
But perhaps my art is the art of a lunatic, I thought, mere glittering quicksilver, a blue soul breaking in upon my pictures.
christ type martyr
For me Christ has always symbolized the true type of the Jewish martyr.
art prayer giving
What counts is art. painting, a kind of painting that is quite different from what everyone makes it out to be. But what kind? 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?
country soul my-soul
Mine alone is the country of my soul.
love life art
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.
color flood humans
I've always painted pictures in which human love floods my colors.
imagination likes moments
I work in whatever medium likes me at the moment.
psychics dimensions painting
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.
littles sweetness
Can my words distill for you a little sweetness, tender and caressing?