Marc Chagall Quotes - Page 2

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• 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.

  Marc Chagall

  Stars, Hands, Sky

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• Will God or someone give me the power to breathe my sigh into my canvases, the sigh of prayer and sadness, the prayer of salvation, of rebirth?

  Marc Chagall

  Prayer, Sadness, Giving

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• 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

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• Mozart never composed anything, ever! He copied what was written on his soul.

  Marc Chagall

  Soul, Written

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• 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.

  Marc Chagall

  Nature, Attitude, Eye

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

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

  Marc Chagall

  Life, Work, Labor Day

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• Love and fantasy, go hand in hand.

  Marc Chagall

  Hands, Fantasy, Hand In Hand

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• 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.

  Marc Chagall

  Mean, Eye, Psychics

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• What a genius, that Picasso. It is a pity he doesn't paint.

  Marc Chagall

  Genius, Pity, Paint

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• We all know that a good person can be a bad artist.But no one will ever be a genuine artist unless he is a great human being and thus also a good one.

  Marc Chagall

  Artist, Good Person, Genuine

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• If I weren't a Jew then I wouldn't be an artist, or at least not the one I am now.

  Marc Chagall

  Artist, Jew, Ifs

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• To call everything that appears illogical, fantasy, fairy tale, or chimera would be practically to admit not understanding nature.

  Marc Chagall

  Understanding Nature, Would Be, Fairy Tale

  Marc Chagall, Curt Valentin Gallery (New York), Curt Valentin Gallery (1952). “Marc Chagall, sculpture, ceramics, etchings for the fables of La Fontaine”

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• I've always painted pictures in which human love floods my colors.

  Marc Chagall

  Color, Flood, Humans

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• On cannot be precise, and still be true.

  Marc Chagall

  Truth, Being True, Stills

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• 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

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• 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

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• Can my words distill for you a little sweetness, tender and caressing?

  Marc Chagall

  Littles, Sweetness

  Marc Chagall (1960). “My Life”, New York : Orion Press

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• 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

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• Mine alone is the country of my soul.

  Marc Chagall

  Country, Soul, Mines

  Marc Chagall, Bissonnette, Denise L, Musée national d'art moderne (France), Montreal Museum of Fine Arts (1988). “Marc Chagall: works from the collections of the Museé national d'art moderne, Centre Georges Pompidou, Paris”, Montreal Museum of Fine Arts

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• If a symbol should be discovered in a painting of mine, it was not my intention. It is a result I did not seek. It is something that may be found afterwards, and which can be interpreted according to taste.

  Marc Chagall

  May, Taste, Painting

  "Marc Chagall 1887-1985: Painting As Poetry" by Ingo F. Walther, Rainer Metzger, (p. 78), 1987.

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• Color is everything. When color is right, form is right.

  Marc Chagall

  Color, Form

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

  Marc Chagall

  Imagination, Likes, Moments

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

  Marc Chagall

  Art, Mind, Problem

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• I am working in Paris . I cannot for a single day get the thought out of my head that there probably exists something essential, some immutable reality, and now that I have lost everything else (thank God, it gets lost all on its own) I am trying to preserve this and, what is more, not to be content. In a word: I am working.

  Marc Chagall

  Reality, Paris, Thank God

  Letter to A. N. Benois, 1911.

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• 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

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