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
hands fantasy hand-in-hand
Love and fantasy, go hand in hand.
art
In the arts, as in life, everything is possible provided it is based on love.
art lying sleep
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.
mean eye psychics
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.
art flower men
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.
thinking two giving
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.
art believe color
You cannot explain me with "isms." They are very bad for an artist. What one must believe in is color.
time rivers
Time is a river without banks.
life color opposites
All colors are the friends of their neighbors and the lovers of their opposites.
art expression inspiration-and-creativity
Art must be an expression of love or it is nothing.
nature attitude eye
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.
life work labor-day
Work isn't to make money; you work to justify life.
emotional names purses
My name is Marc, my emotional life is sensitive and my purse is empty, but they say I have talent.
reality serenity world
All our interior world is reality, and that, perhaps, more so than our apparent world.