Marc Chagall Quotes About Art

Quotes about: Art

• Great art picks up where nature ends.

  Marc Chagall

  Art, Ends, Artist

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

  Marc Chagall

  Life, Beautiful, Art

• Art must be an expression of love or it is nothing.

  Marc Chagall

  Life, Beauty, Beautiful

• 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

  Art, Flower, Men

• 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

  Art, Lying, Sleep

• Despite all the troubles of our world, in my heart I have never given up on the love in which I was brought up or on man's hope in love. In life, just as on the artist's palette, there is but one single colour that gives meaning to life and art–the colour of love

  Marc Chagall

  Art, Men, Our World

  Jacob Baal-Teshuva, Marc Chagall (2008). “Marc Chagall: 1887-1985”, Taschen America Llc

• In the arts, as in life, everything is possible provided it is based on love.

  Marc Chagall

  Art

  Marc Chagall, Abram Markovich Ėfros, Benjamin Harshav, Barbara Harshav (2003). “Marc Chagall on Art and Culture: Including the First Book on Chagall's Art by A. Efros and Ya. Tugendhold (Moscow, 1918)”, p.173, Stanford University Press

• 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

  Art, Keys, People

• 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

  Love, Life, Art

• 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

  Art, Thinking, Two

• Art seems to me to be above all a state of soul.

  Marc Chagall

  Art, Soul, States

  Jacob Baal-Teshuva, Marc Chagall (2008). “Marc Chagall: 1887-1985”, Taschen America Llc

• Everything in art must spring from the movement of our whole life-stream, of our whole being - including the unconscious.

  Marc Chagall

  Art, Spring, Movement

  Marc Chagall, I︠A︡kov Aleksandrovich Tugendkholʹd, Abram Markovich Ėfros, Benjamin Harshav, Barbara Harshav (2003). “Marc Chagall on art and culture: including the first book on Chagall's art by A. Efros and Ya. Tugendhold (Moscow, 1918)”, Stanford Univ Pr

• 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

  Art, Blue, Soul

• You cannot explain me with "isms." They are very bad for an artist. What one must believe in is color.

  Marc Chagall

  Art, Believe, Color

• 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?

  Marc Chagall

  Art, Prayer, Giving

• 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.

  Marc Chagall

  Art, Teaching, Blood

  "Marc Chagall - the Russian years 1906 - 1922". Book by Christoph Vitali, p. 58, 1991.

• 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

  Art, Soul, Sacred

  Jacob Baal-Teshuva, Marc Chagall (2008). “Marc Chagall: 1887-1985”, Taschen America Llc

• Art is foremost a state of mind, and only secondarily a problem of form.

  Marc Chagall

  Art, Mind, Problem

• When I am finishing a picture, I hold some God-made object up to it

  Marc Chagall

  Art, Finishing It, Finishing Up

• 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

  Art, Russia, Roots

  "From Blake to Pollock". Book by Richard Friedenthal, 1963.

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