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
color form
Color is everything. When color is right, form is right.
color flood humans
I've always painted pictures in which human love floods my colors.
color vibrations
Color is vibration like music; everything is vibration.
art believe color
You cannot explain me with "isms." They are very bad for an artist. What one must believe in is color.
life color opposites
All colors are the friends of their neighbors and the lovers of their opposites.
healing color vibrations
Color is all. When color is right, form is right. Color is everything, color is vibration like music; everything is vibration.
bad beside branch cannot clash final finishing hand hold man object painting picture stands tree
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 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.
truth being-true stills
On cannot be precise, and still be true.
understanding-nature would-be fairy-tale
To call everything that appears illogical, fantasy, fairy tale, or chimera would be practically to admit not understanding nature.
adversity poverty youth
In my youth, poverty enriched me, but now I can afford wealth.
moss be-careful careful
One must always be careful not to let one's work be covered with moss.
wise blue hands
But my knowledge of Marxism was limited to knowing that Marx was a Jew, and that he had a long white beard. I said to Lunatcharsky (the political communist commissar for Education, 1918, fh) 'Whatever you do, don't ask me why I painted in blue or green, and why you can see a calf inside the cow's belly, etc. On the other hand you're welcome: if Marx is so wise, let him come back to life and explain it himself'. I showed him my canvases.
art teaching blood
In spite of everything, there is still no more wonderful vocation than to continue to tolerate events and to work on in the name of our mission, in the name of that spirit which lives on in our teaching and in our vision of humanity and art, the spirit which can lead us Jews down the true and just path. But along the way, peoples will spill our blood, and that of others.
july june judgement
My works are dear to me, each in its own way, I shall have to answer for them on the Day off Judgement. God alone knows whether I shall ever see them again. Quite apart from the money which I was going to receive for their sale there (exhibition in Gallery Der Sturm, Berlin June-July, 1914) and it is no small sum..